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Library Celebrates Black History Month
Post Date:
Feb 14, 2023
Throughout February Queen’s University Library locations are playing host to a variety of displays and curated collections celebrating Black History Month. The 2023 theme for Black History Month is: “Ours to tell”. This theme represents an opportunity to engage in open dialogue, and a commitment to learning more about the stories Black communities in Canada have to tell about their histories, successes, sacrifices and triumphs.
These initiatives are intended to serve as valuable pathways for learning about the rich history of Canada’s Black peoples and communities. We invite you to engage with these collections, both virtually and physically and join us in highlighting, promoting, and expanding our understanding of Black History.
Please use the links below to access the excellent selection of resources put together by QUL staff for Black History Month 2023.
The display at Bracken Health Sciences Library highlights materials about and by Black Canadian health professionals. The display links to journal articles, eBooks and of course physical books. Feel free to visit and check out the display. Curation by Talin Boghosian and Emily Croft.
The Education Library front page features an extensive gallery of titles selected by Jessa Brown, with a link to a guide from the Faculty of Education immediately below.
Engineering and Science has curated a library guide highlighting inspiring stories of Black scientists in the STEM fields.
Lederman Law Library is featuring a curated print collection for Black History Month 2023, including a reading list with QR codes for convenient access to the listed resources. Readers are also encouraged to make use of the Law Library's Reading List on Anti-Black Racism and the Law
Humanities and Social Sciences Research & Instruction Librarian Hannah Tannah has curated an extensive selection of resources including streamable films specially curated for Black History Month 2023:
African Diaspora, 1860-present
Primary source documents covering migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent, with a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France.
Full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
A fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books and much more.
Electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history.
Streaming video access to the archives the Banyan Production company of Trinidad and Tobago, the first producer of original television in the Caribbean. Material includes interviews with writers and cultural figures, documentaries, and theater, music, and dance performances.
Searchable full-text and page images of the leading Black newspaper of the 20th century.
Streaming Video
Featured films from our collection:
This film tells the untold story of Toronto's Black queer community who “faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and over a four-decade span rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community.”
Urgent, controversial and undeniably honest, The Skin We're In is a wake-up call to complacent Canadians. Racism is here. It is everywhere. It is us and we are it. It is us and we are it. Following celebrated journalist Desmond Cole as he researches his hotly anticipated book, this documentary from acclaimed director Charles Officer pulls back the curtain on racism in Canada.
Black Communities In Canada: A Rich History
From the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada, this playlist of 30 films hopes to provide a “glimpse of the multi-layered lives of Canada’s diverse Black communities.”
Films on Demand: Black History Month Collection
The educational streaming service, Films on Demand, has created a collection in celebration of Black History Month.