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The Mantle of Struggle

By (author) Irving Andre
Foreword by David Austin
Categories: Biography: general

Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under ...

Out To Defend Ourselves

This first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result of a four-year collaboration between a university professor (Ted Rutland) and the leader of les Bélangers (Maxime Aurélien). ...

Junie

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. ...

Seize temps noirs pour apprendre à dire kuei

Seize temps noirs pour apprendre à dire kuei raconte ces moments et ces gestes dont on ne parle pas et qui pourtant illustrent les proximités et les solidarités entre les communautés noires et autochtones ...

#BlackInSchool

By (author) Habiba Cooper Diallo
Foreword by Awad Ibrahim
Categories: Biography: general

#BlackInSchool is Habiba Cooper Diallo’s high school journal, in which she documents, processes, and resists the systemic racism, microaggressions, stereotypes, and outright racism she experienced in ...

Black Matters

By (author) Afua Cooper
By (photographer) Wilfried Raussert
Categories: Poetry

Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and ...

Pourin' Down Rain

By (author) Cheryl Foggo
Categories: Biography: general

The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies.

Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary and struggled against the many ways ...

Exile Blues

By (author) Gary Freeman
Categories: Fiction: general and literary
Series: None

Prez grows up in the 50s in segregated Washington, DC. Street smart and skeptical, but with a code of ethics, he, like every black kid, wants to be Malcolm, Martin or a “soul brother. ” Invited to ...

Joseph's Big Ride

A refugee boy’s determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship.

Joseph wants only one thing: to ride a bike. In the refugee camp where he lives, Joseph helps one of the older boys ...

Jamaica in the Canadian Experience

In 2012, Jamaica celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain. In the short period of its life as a nation, Jamaica’s increasingly powerful influence on global culture cannot go ...