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Black History Month resource list
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Black History Month

In February we recognize the history, contributions, and achievements of African, Black, and Caribbean communities. This guide contains a selection of library and open access resources about Black history, please refer to the NorQuest College Black History Month guide for more community resources and events happening throughout February!

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Books from Library Catalogue (login required)

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

Black Writers Matter

eBook

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Also available as an audiobook (hoopla)

Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada

Also available as an eBook

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

Queer returns : essays on multiculturalism, diaspora, and Black studies

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

Also available as an eBook

The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal

eBook

Bread Out of Stone

Blacks in Canada: A History

eBook

The Fire Next Time

Trailblazers: The Black Pioneers Who Have Shaped Canada

Black Is a Rainbow Color

Juvenile

Meet Viola Desmond

Juvenile

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

Easy Read

Also available as an eBook

Desire Lines: a Novel

Also available as an eBook

Any Known Blood: A Novel

Also available as an eBook or audiobook

If Beale Street Could Talk

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History

BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom

eBook

They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada

eBook

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

Readings (free or no login required)

How did Black History Month come to be?

Black History and Human Rights

Black on the Prairies

ByBlacks online magazine

The Canadian Narrative about Slavery is Wrong

Black History in Canada

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Movies from the Library Catalogue (login required)

Black Communities in Canada film collection

If Beale Street Could Talk

Streaming on Criterion on Demand

I am Not Your Negro

Streaming on Kanopy

Selma

Also available on DVD

Fences

Streaming on Criterion on Demand

The Color Purple

Streaming on Criterion on Demand

Also available on DVD

Hidden Figures

Also available on DVD

Belle

Streaming on Criterion on Demand

42

Streaming on Criterion on Demand

The Hate U Give

Streaming on Criterion on Demand

Red Tails

Streaming on Criterion on Demand

Videos (free or no login required)

Secret Calgary: Kicking Up a Fuss

Secret Alberta: The Former Life of Amber Valley

Howdy, I'm John Ware

The Skin We’re In

A Hidden History: Slavery in Canada

Black History in Canada: A Select Timeline

Black Lives in Alberta: Over a Century of Racial Injustice Continues

We Are the Roots: Black Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies

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Podcasts (free or no login required)

Black on the Prairies

I am Black History

Esi Edugyan - Out of the Sun: On Race & Storytelling

Become a Good Ancestor

BlackTalk

Portraits of Black Canadians

Strong & Free

Canada’s slavery secret: the whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement

Community Resources

And Still We Rise: A Black Presence in Alberta, late 1800s – 1970s

National Black Coalition of Canada, Edmonton Chapter

Black History Month at NorQuest

Black People's History of Canada

Government of Canada Black history month graphic

Goverment of Canada: February is Black History Month

Federation of Black Canadians

Alberta Teachers' Association: Black History Month resource collection

Black Health Alliance

Black Women United YEG

Black Youth Helpline

Black Business and Professional Association