“The loosening of shackles”: Understanding Emancipation Day
August 1 marks Emancipation Day, a commemoration of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. Actualized on August 1, 1834, the ...
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Fredericton photographer makes film on boxing
Gary Weekes is a freelance photographer whose latest video project is an extension of his primary passion. Weekes recently released ...
Historian Mary McCarthy-Brandt cares for her ancestors and Black Loyalists graves
Black graveyards were a major part of Mary Louise McCarthy-Brandt studies when she decided to do her PhD. The thesis, ...
Black Lives Matter, 1945
David Frank: This is a letter written in 1945 by a young New Brunswick woman. Thelma O’Ree was one of ...
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Tertulia – Mary McCarthy-Brandt on New Brunswick’s first Black lawyer Abraham Beverley Walker [video]
Mary McCarthy-Brandt delivered a talk on Abraham Beverley Walker, New Brunswick’s first Black lawyer and a prominent civil rights activist, ...
“Why the Black community needs to be given the opportunity to write its own history”: A review of Black Loyalists in New Brunswick by Stephen Davidson
I am a sixth generation descendant of early Black settler to New Brunswick. My ancestor Solomon Kendall first served with ...
Paul Robeson in Saint John, New Brunswick, October 1945: A Concert that was More than a Concert
The acclaimed play by Tayo Aluko, “Call Mr Robeson: A Life, with Songs,” is on tour ...
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