The Government of Canada highlights that Africville has been designated as the new Place of History and Memory linked to Enslavement and the Slave Trade. The Government of Canada announced that it has ...

OTTAWA, ON, Oct. 9, 2024 /CNW/ - The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and Africville Heritage Trust are pleased to announce that Africville has been designated as Canada's first UNESCO Place of History ...

The destruction of Africville remains one of the most shameful chapters in Canadian history, but one that should always be remembered. Located on the shores of the Bedford Basin in Halifax, Africville ...

A new podcast about one of Halifax's former Black communities is looking to bring a different focus to the story by featuring advocates who are fighting to have the land returned to its descendants.

The Seaview United Baptist Church in Hailfax, Nova Scortia was a historic Black church of Africville, demolished in what was described as a wave of urban revival in 1960’s. The local Black community ...

Kites were flying, kids were playing and burgers were being flipped at the 42nd Africville Family Reunion on Saturday. It was children's day, and event organizer Shawn Mantley was on barbecue duty. He ...

A new podcast is giving voice to people associated with the community of Africville. Titled Africville Forever, the podcast is looking to unearth stories from the Black community, including its birth, ...

When David Woods volunteered at the north-end library in Halifax in the 1980s, one of the women he ran into regularly there used to tell him about how her mother used to paint. And although she used ...

Visitors to Africville Park in Halifax will now have more of a sense of what life was like for residents of the Black community that once occupied the site. Five new information panels were installed ...

There are entire blocks of Gottingen Street, the commercial artery that runs along one of Halifax’s oldest public housing projects, that were once considered by some too dangerous to walk down at ...

Standing in front of his RV on the grounds of Africville Park in Halifax, Eddie Carvery vowed that after more than 50 years of protest, he's not going anywhere in the face of yet another eviction ...