The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. Mirroring the collective nature of the nineteenth-century Colored Conventions, CCP uses innovative, inclusive models and partnerships to locate, transcribe, and archive the documentary record...

CINEMA POLITICA is a Montreal-based media arts, non-profit network of community and campus locals that screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad. We believe in the power of art to not only entertain but to engage, inform, inspire, and provoke social change. Cinema...

Solomon Tsehaye is Eritrea’s pre-eminent oral historian, language and cultural scholar. Working in transnational collaboration with him and his colleagues, I am helping to develop funding, institutional resources, appropriate expertise and digital infrastructures to advance the story collection from Tigrinya-speaking elders who are the depositories of the history and culture....

The Ali Mustafa Memorial Collective is a volunteer-based group that was established shortly after the death of Canadian photographer, journalist, and activist, Ali Mustafa on March 9, 2014. The core aim of the Collective is to honour, preserve and celebrate Ali’s life and work as a “peoples’ journalist,” by providing an annual award...

The Audre Lorde Scholarship for Black LGBTQ Youth in Hamilton, Ontario, was started in 2014 in by Ruth Cameron and datejie green. Applicants are required to meet the following criteria: Will attend a post-secondary educational or training institution in the Province of Ontario in the year of the award Demonstration...