Interview: founder of Toronto’s Black Archives
A photo from Choltu Curlin’s personal archive with the annotation “bidding friends farewell at Pearson Airport during the summer of 1987.”| MOBA
All archives produce finding aids, which lists what is in an archive’s collections. Finding aids point to information such as access dates, the importance of items and/or objects, how those items and/or objects have been described, and whether access is restricted.| mobaprojects.ca
A photo from Choltu Curlin’s personal archive with the annotation “bidding friends farewell at Pearson Airport during the summer of 1987.”| MOBA
“Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto” is a non-fiction book about the 1894 murder of Frank Westwood in Toronto and the subsequent trial of accused Clara Ford, a Black single mother, of the crime. It won the 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the 2023 Toronto Book Award and the 2024 Brass Knuckles Award for Non-fiction Crime Books. | MOBA
Author: Syriah Bailey| MOBA
DJ DTS stands behind his set up in advance of Mark Campbell’s Furnace Slaps exhibit in Toronto.| MOBA
Author: Antoinette Seymour, University of Windsor| MOBA
A photo of two tombstones which mark the graves of Black settlers in Ontario. (William Felepchuk)| MOBA
Fig. 1. Swimming. Merlyn Bryant; Laurent Mallette, 27 July 1943. Source: Bibliothèque et| MOBA
We are proud to announce that MOBA’s very own Dr. Cheryl Thompson has been named a new Canada Research Chair (CRC), a program that promotes research excellence and recognizes leaders in their fields. Dr. Thompson’s groundbreaking work exemplifies this mission, advancing the representation and preservation of Black creative histories.| MOBA
Black Queer Collections at The ArQuives: A Legacy of Resistance and Community (Part 1)| mobaprojects.ca
The ArQuives: A Legacy of Resistance and Community (Part 2) | mobaprojects.ca
Furnace Slaps: Listening to the Black Sonic Past| mobaprojects.ca
This article originally appeared on Spacing.ca on August 17, 2018.| MOBA
There is no definitive national Black archive in Canada to preserve, promote, and protect the historical books, documents, and artefacts of Black Canadians. Instead, Canada’s Black archive comprises disparate collections, spread across the country, that aim to preserve the histories of African Canadians who live(d) in specific provinces and/or cities and/or towns. 1 By contrast, national Black archives exist in other parts of the world. In the Netherlands, for instance, there is a historica...| MOBA
