Black Lives Matter: Helpful Reading & Video Resources

Reading Resources:

Canada In Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation Yves Engler Groundings with My Brothers Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada Sarah-Jane Mathieu Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present Robyn Maynard The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power Desmond Cole The Story of Africville Matthew McRae Viola Desmond’s Canada Graham Reynolds

Video Resources:

Fair Argument Against “Systemic Racism” Long Road to Justice – The Viola Desmond Story North Preston – A Look Past Stigma Obama Speaks At Town Hall On Policing and Racism Once Upon A Black Halifax Racial Profiling by Stores, Landlords, and Companies: Are We Racist? Speak it! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia Trevor Noah On George Floyd, Amy Cooper & Racism In Society Untitled Land – Elaine Cain’s Story White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism