Welcome! The Black Press in Canada Conference celebrates 5 years of research collaboration on the SSHRC-funded project, The Black Press in Canada: Roots and Trajectories of Exceptional Communication and Intellectual Activism (SSHRC IG 2016-2021, Boulou Ebanda de B’béri, Principal Investigator; Claudine Bonner and Nina Reid-Maroney, Co-Investigators.)

The Black Press in Canada Conference brings together community research partners, students, and academic collaborators for a two-day event featuring keynote talks from Irene Moore Davis (President, Essex County Black Historical Research Society) and Kristin Moriah (Department of English, Queen’s University), community history panels, hands-on workshops in the Huron Letterpress Studio for secondary school students, a reflective walk through Chatham, a roundtable with contributors to the project’s edited collection, The Black Press: A Shadowed Canadian Tradition (forthcoming from University of Toronto Press) and more.

.The Black Press in Canada Community Conference was held on September 30, 2022, at Huron University College in the Great Hall and on October 1, 2022, at the Black Mecca Museum/Wish Centre in Chatham, Ontario.

While there is no cost for attendees, The Black Press in Canada Community Conference is encouraging donations to The London Community Foundation Chapel Project. You can find more information and donate here.

Click here to view the Black Press in Canada Community Conference Program.
Huron is situated on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, and Lenape peoples. We acknowledge the importance of Treaty no. 6 (London) and Treaty no.7 (Chenail Ecarté Reserve Purchase), negotiated and signed at St. Anne Island between the British crown and the Chippewa Nation, ancestors of Chippewa of the Thames First Nation, Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, Caldwell First Nation, Bkejwanong Walpole Island First Nation, and Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Our work on this report is framed by our acknowledgement of Huron’s past role in perpetuating colonial and exclusionary relations, and by our resolve to work for justice and reconciliation, revitalizing treaty relationships with the present-day descendants of the treaty signatories as well as building respectful relationships with the Munsee-Delaware First Nation, Oneida Nation of the Thames, Delaware Nation at Moraviantown, and Six Nations of the Grand River.

The Black Press in Canada Conference is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Huron University College Department of History, Huron’s Office of the Provost and Dean, University of Ottawa, Acadia University, and the Huron Community History Centre.