Black history

Toyin Kayo-Ajayi at his farm, feeding goats in a tent, looking over his shoulder at the camera. He wears a yellow jacket and holds a white bucket.

As grocery prices climb, one farmer bets on growing African staples in B.C.

By Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood and Jimmy Jeong

Feb. 17, 2026 8 min. read

People said he was crazy to start a farm based in African foods. ‘It’s good...

A man in a forest puts his hand to his head, as if slapping a bug

In southern Ontario, the land remembers

By Denise Balkissoon

Feb. 13, 2026

Moved by his ancestors, Ken Johnston walked 265 kilometres from Niagara Falls to Owen Sound,...

Zachee Nzeyimana and Ken Johnston walk through farmland between Guelph and Fergus, Ont., while retracing an Underground Railroad route from Niagara Falls to Owen Sound.

Bogs, bugs, freedom and loss: walking alongside Ontario’s early Black settlers

By Canice Leung

Feb. 9, 2026 17 min. read

Moved by his ancestors, Ken Johnston retraced 1,300 kilometres of the Underground Railroad to learn...

A group of Black and white men stand in front of a blast furnace. The photo was taken in 1900s at the Dominion Iron and Steel Co. Plant in Sydney Nova Scotia.

Uncovering the history of Nova Scotia’s Black miners

By Francesca Fionda

Feb. 25, 2025 7 min. read

A researcher in Canada's Atlantic region uncovers ‘striking’ similarities between the historic treatment of Black...

Billy Beal: Lumber workers use a machine called a jammer to load piles of logs onto railway car near Red Deer Lake, Manitoba in 1920. Two horses stand near the train.

Logging, homesteading and life on the Prairies, through the eyes of a Black photographer

By Julia-Simone Rutgers

Feb. 23, 2024 7 min. read

Billy Beal — a Black sawmill worker who immigrated at the turn of the 20th...

Bird renaming: A collage of five birdwatchers with binoculars and cameras on a sky-like background with the outlines of birds illustrated overhead

Many birds are named for enslavers, colonizers and white supremacists. That’s about to change

By Emma McIntosh

Feb. 12, 2024 20 min. read

Black birdwatchers on the practice’s racist history, the move to rename North America’s feathered species...

Photos of the people in the story. Top row, left to right: Laurian Farrel, Kiana Bonnick, Peter Soroye, Louise Delisle and Chùk Odenigbo. Bottom row, left to right: Zamani Ra, Violet Morrison, Ingrid Waldron, Julius Lindsay and Maydianne Andrade

‘She’s out here trailblazing’: these 10 Black environmentalists are building community

By Serena Austin

Feb. 6, 2024 14 min. read

Black Canadian scientists, researchers and environmental advocates discuss the importance of mentors, protégés and friends...

Chloe Cooley is on Canada Post’s 2023 Black History Month stamp. She was enslaved in Niagara-on-the-Lake and resisted being sold across the Niagara River to the U.S. in March 1793. Her resistance led to the Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada a few months later, a significant step on the long road to the Abolition of Slavery in Canada and the rest of the British Empire.

Uncovering the Black history of 10 Ontario rivers

By Jacqueline L. Scott

Feb. 22, 2023 9 min. read

Canada often tries to erase Black people from both history and the environmental movement, but...