Black Lives Matter: Helpful Reading & Video Resources
Reading Resources:
Canada In Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation Yves Engler
Groundings with My Brothers Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada Sarah-Jane Mathieu
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present Robyn Maynard
The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill
The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power Desmond Cole
The Story of Africville Matthew McRae
Viola Desmond’s Canada Graham Reynolds
Video Resources:
Fair Argument Against “Systemic Racism”
Long Road to Justice – The Viola Desmond Story
North Preston – A Look Past Stigma
Obama Speaks At Town Hall On Policing and Racism
Racial Profiling by Stores, Landlords, and Companies: Are We Racist?
Trevor Noah On George Floyd, Amy Cooper & Racism In Society
Untitled Land – Elaine Cain’s Story
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism