Archives & Things

Summary:In this episode, I welcome Audra A. Diptee, an Associate Professor of History at Carleton University. Audra joined us to speak about her research on the weaponization of colonial archives to rewrite history. Episode Resources:Audra A. Diptee. https://www.audradiptee.com/ Audra A. Diptée. (Apr 27, 2023). The records the British Empire didn't want you to see. YouTube. https://youtu.be/oPGVGckn7kQ?si=CnHTyoE6T6WH6DOG Alex Williams. (2016). The Pass System. http://thepasssystem.ca/ Michel-Rolph Trouillot. (1995). Silencing the Past. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246609/silencing-the-past-by-michel-rolph-trouillot/ Donald J. Trump. Executive Order. Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. (March 27, 2025). https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/ Stay Connected:If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon.To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ or Instagram⁠ contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary:In this episode, I welcome Gabrielle Miller, a Program Specialist and Archaeologist for the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Gabrielle joined us to speak about the Slave Wrecks Project, which searches for slave ships and tends to watery graveyards. Episode Resources:Omnia Saed (August 26, 2024). For Black Archaeologists, the Atlantic Ocean is an Ancestral Graveyard. https://atmos.earth/for-black-archaeologists-the-atlantic-ocean-is-an-ancestral-graveyard/ Slave Wrecks Project. Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. http://slavewrecksproject.org  In Slavery’s Wake. Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.https://www.searchablemuseum.com/in-slaverys-wake/ Christina Sharpe. (November 2016). In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-wake Stay Connected:If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon.To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and Instagram⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary:Welcome to the opener for season 4! In this episode, I welcome Camille Turner, an artist and scholar whose work combines Afrofuturism and historical research. Camille joins us to speak about her Afronautic Research Lab, a performance and social practice project that approaches colonial archives from the point of view of a liberated future.Episode Resources:Camille Turner. “Afronautic Memory and the Archive.” 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534645.2022.2073691 Camille Turner. https://www.camilleturner.com/ Black Memory Collective. [Instagram]. “What if archivists were time travellers walking backwards into the future?” https://www.instagram.com/p/C9fGMjwARaF/ Stay Connected:If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon.To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: It’s the last episode of the year. In this episode, I welcome Cheryl Foggo, an author, filmmaker, playwright and community historian. Cheryl joins us to speak about her work recovering Black Prairie histories through film and storytelling. Episode Resources: Cheryl Foggo (January 24, 2022). Here: The Prairies are rich with the collective memories of the Black people who came before us. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/here  Cheryl Foggo (2020). Pourin’ Down Rain: A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West. https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/titles/pourin-down-rain-2/  Cheryl Foggo (2020). John Ware Reclaimed. (Film). https://www.nfb.ca/film/john-ware-reclaimed/  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. To learn more about my work, visit my website at⁠ ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠⁠. You can connect with me on⁠ ⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ and⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ or by email at ⁠melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Phil Vassell and Donna McCurvin, co-founders of Canada Black Music Archives. Phil and Donna join us to speak about this digital archive which aims to research, preserve, and amplify the rich, largely untold music history of Black Canadians.  Episode Resources: Canada Black Music Archives. https://thecbma.com/  Kayla McLean (August 10, 2024). A walk through time: New tour spotlights Little Jamaica’s music history. Global News. https://globalnews.ca/news/10690013/toronto-little-jamaica-tour/amp/  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. To learn more about my work, visit my website at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ or by email at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I was joined by my colleagues Désirée Rochat, Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer, and Aaron T. Francis of the Black Memory Collective. We presented virtually at the Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference. Our roundtable, “Black Dreams & the Archives” reflected on current/future possibilities within traditional archive spaces.  Episode Resources: Ruha Benjamin (2024). Imagination: A Manifesto. https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/imagination-a-manifesto Robin D.G. Kelley (2003). Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/  Melissa J. Nelson (2024). Dreaming with Archives: A Writing Workshop. https://www.instagram.com/p/C9Ke--5gB4Z/?img_index=1  Black Memory Collective [@black.memory.co]. Instagram post. Black Dreams & The Archives. Retrieved from, https://www.instagram.com/p/C7eMSRugo8u/?igsh=M2w4OTQ4a2Yxa2Jh  Black Memory Collective. https://blackmemorycollective.com  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Kadeem Dunn, a video game creator at Diaspora Games. Kadeem joins us to speak about his work recreating memory through historical video games.  Episode Resources: Diaspora Games. Games for us, by us. https://www.diasporagames.ca/index.html  Channon Oyeniran (February 8, 2019). Sleeping Car Porters in Canada. Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sleeping-car-porters-in-canada  Black Memory Collective [@black.memory.co]. Instagram post. What is a memory worker? Retrieved from, https://www.instagram.com/p/C5QiZnJg4qm/?img_index=1  Tonia Sutherland (2023). Resurrecting The Black Body: Race and The Digital Afterlife. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body  Replika https://replika.com/  Hirun Cryer (May 17, 2024). Who is Assassin's Creed Shadows' protagonist Yasuke? The history behind the first Black Samurai explained. Games Radar. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/assassin-s-creed/who-is-assassins-creed-shadows-protagonist-yasuke-the-history-behind-the-first-black-samurai-explained/  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Michaëlle Sergile, an artist and independent curator completing an artist residency with McCord Stewart Museum. Michaëlle joins us to speak about her artistic practice of capturing and rewriting historical memory through textiles. Episode Resources: Artworks. Michaëlle Sergile. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://en.michaellesergile.com/oeuvres  Michaëlle Sergile. [@michaellesergile]. Instagram profile. Retrieved from, https://www.instagram.com/michaellesergile/  Archival Alchemy. Joyce LeeAnn Joseph. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://archivalalchemy.com/  Cheryl Thompson (2019). Black Canada and Why The Archival Logic of Memory Needs Reform. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ateliers/2019-v14-n2-ateliers05462/1071133ar.pdf  Saidiya Hartman (2008). Venus in two acts. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/241115  Fantz Fanon (1952). Black Skin, White Masks. https://groveatlantic.com/book/black-skin-white-masks/   McCord Steward Museum (2019). The Notman Photographic Archives on Unesco’s Canada Memory of The World Register. https://www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/blog/notman-archives-unesco/  Black Memory Collective [@black.memory.co]. Instagram post. What is a memory worker? Retrieved from, https://www.instagram.com/p/C5QiZnJg4qm/?img_index=1 Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Dr. Meredith D. Clark, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Meredith joins us to speak about her project Archiving Black Twitter, which seeks to empower Black Twitter users to create their own “small histories” from their data. Episode Resources: Juana Summers, Sarah Handel, Jonaki Mehta (May 26, 2023). She's trying to archive Black Twitter. It's a delicate and imperfect task. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/26/1178262041/archiving-black-twitter-elon-musk-meredith-clark Archiving Black Twitter (n.d.). Meredith D. Clarke, PhD. Retrieved January 2, 2024, from https://www.meredithdclark.com/archivingblacktwitter  Archiving the Black Web (2021). https://www.archivingtheblackweb.org  Donovan X. Ramsey (April 10, 2015). The Truth About Black Twitter. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/the-truth-about-black-twitter/390120/  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Kelann Currie-Williams, lens-based artist and doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Concordia University. Kelann joins us to speak about the poetics of the archives.   Episode Resources: Kelann Currie-Williams. (2021). Prolonging the Afterimage: Looking at and Talking about Photographs of Black Montreal. Concordia University. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988140/13/CurrieWilliams_MA_S2021.pdf  Kelann Currie-Williams (2021). Makers and Keepers: Two Lives, Through Photographs. Canadian Journal of History, 56(3). https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0044 Patrick Lejtenyi (September 29, 2020). Concordia undergrads explore Montreal's Black history through the Negro Community Centre Archives. https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2020/09/29/concordia-undergrads-explore-montreals-black-history-through-the-negro-community-centre-archives.html  Tina M. Campt. (2017). Listening to Images. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/listening-to-images  Saidiya Hartman. (2019).  Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: Intimate histories of riotous Black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals. WW Norton & Company. https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393357622 Melissa J. Nelson. (November 9, 2023) Black Sound and the Archives. https://melissajnelson.com/explore/information-management/black-sound-and-the-archives/  Vance Woods. (Jan 16, 2023). “There is a tangible tension between what is held in Caribbean archives and what is remembered in Caribbean communities”: Interview with Stanley H. Griffin, of the University of the West Indies (pt. 1). https://www.archivozmagazine.org/en/interview-with-stanley-h-griffin-pt-1/#:~:text=marketing%20marketing-,%E2%80%9CThere%20is%20a%20tangible%20tension%20between%20what%20is%20held%20in,1 Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: Welcome to the opener for season 3! In this episode, I welcome Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer, a critical archives scholar and Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. Elizabeth joins us to speak about her research on the intersections of Black memory production and technology. Episode Resources: Association of Canadian Archivists. Archives Spotlight Melissa J. Nelson: Black Memory Collective. https://archivists.ca/Blog/13316265   Dr. Cheryl Thompson. MOBA: Artists and Archivists in Dialogue. September 21-22, 2023. Toronto. https://drive.google.com/file/d/176y5F7mX6PIFbK-EXS-fP5b4fTQqJaNX/view?usp=sharing  Transformative Memory Digital Archive. https://omeka.irshdc.ubc.ca/s/Transformative-Memory/page/welcome  Melissa J. Nelson. February 8, 2024. Reclaiming the Narrative: Black Archives at the Archives of Ontario. Niagara Falls Museums. https://youtu.be/TDmrmDgaE68?si=pCt6pBEHzB-zUfhn  Christina Sharpe (2016). In the Wake: On Blackness and Being.” Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-wake  Katherine McKittrick (2021). Dear Science and Other Stories. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/dear-science-and-other-stories  Tonia Sutherland (2023). Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife.” University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body  Ehiko Odeh (2024). Golden Beauty Supply. https://designto.org/event/golden-beauty-supply/ [video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3sinahtTDr/] Ehiko Odeh (2024). Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow. https://www.rhpl.ca/hair-today-gone-tomorrow-exhibit [video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C22JkX_Lg_q/] Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at https://melissajnelson.com. You can connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: It's the last episode of the year. In this bonus episode,  I welcome Elaine Young, Program Officer, Communication and Information at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO) and Cody Groat, Chair of the Canada Advisory Committee of CCUNESCO. Elaine and Cody join us to speak about the Canada Memory of the World Register, which promotes the rich diversity of the country’s documentary heritage. Episode Resources: Canada Memory of the World Register. https://en.ccunesco.ca/our-priorities/memory-of-the-world  Cody Groat. (May 24, 2023). Guardians of our Knowledge. CCUNESCO. https://en.ccunesco.ca/idealab/guardians-of-our-knowledge-memory-of-the-world  Dorothy Berry. (2023). The Dorothy Berry Collection of What Are Black Archives, 2023. https://syllabusproject.org/what-are-black-archives/ Sheryl Assam. (September 22, 2023). Quilting exhibition celebrates Nova Scotia’s Black communities. Broadview. https://broadview.org/secret-codes-quilts-nova-scotia/  Alison Duke & Ngardy Conteh. (2018). Archiving Winston LaRose. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/archiving-winston-larose  Sean Smith. (July 12, 2023). Collective Healing in our Black Archives. InsideOPS. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ajJfo5jFsS1eXtquzWFMlIsn8iuNX4j/view?usp=sharing  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Anchor, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at https://melissajnelson.com. You can connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Désirée Rochat, a memory worker and postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and the Department of History at Concordia University. Désirée joins us to speak about her initiatives to preserve and promote Black community archives in Quebec.  Episode Resources: Désirée Rochat. (2022). Cultivating Black diasporic memories and communities through community archiving. In Cindy Maguire and Ann Holt (eds.), Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003148203-8/cultivating-black-diasporic-memories-communities-community-archiving-d%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e-rochat  Jeannette  Allis Bastian. (2003). Owning Memory: How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History. Libraries Unlimited.https://www.amazon.ca/Owning-Memory-Caribbean-Community-Archives/dp/031332008X  Kimberly Christen & Jane Anderson. (2019). Toward slow archives. Archival Science, 19(2). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-019-09307-x  Zakiya Collier and Tonia Sutherland. (2021). Black Archival Practice. The Black Scholar. https://www.theblackscholar.org/call-for-papers/black-archival-practice/  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Anchor, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at https://melissajnelson.com. You can connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Nana aba Duncan, Associate Professor and Carty Chair in Journalism, Diversity and Inclusion Studies at Carleton University. Nana aba joins us to speak about her plans to launch the Mary Ann Shadd Cary Centre for Journalism and Belonging. Episode Resources:  Mary Ann Shadd Cary Centre for Journalism and Belonging. https://view.genial.ly/61e58f69c08f6f0ceda67f2a Diversity Survey. The Canadian Association of Journalists. https://caj.ca/programs/diversity-survey/  Sam Winn. (April 24, 2017). The Hubris of Neutrality in Archives. https://medium.com/on-archivy/the-hubris-of-neutrality-in-archives-8df6b523fe9f  Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Jasmine Jones, Shannon O'Neill, Holly A. Smith. (2021). An Introduction to Radical Empathy in Archival Practice. In Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Jasmine Jones, Shannon O’Neill, and Holly Smith (eds.), Radical Empathy in Archival Practice. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 3, no. 2. https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/171  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Anchor, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at https://melissajnelson.com. You can connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Dr. Funké Aladejebi, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Funké joins us to speak about her work conducting oral histories with Black women educators.  Episode Resources: Dr. Funké Aladejebi (November 4, 2020). Seeing Themselves: Race, Education and Black Life in Canada. McMaster Humanities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdTUFIRaIDw  Dr. Funké Aladejebi. (January 19, 2021). Liberatory Pedagogies: Black Women Teachers in Ontario. Amherstburg Freedom Museum. https://youtu.be/VKB6u-Wl4g4  Funké Aladejebi. (2021). Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers. McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/schooling-the-system-products-9780228005391.php  Funké Aladejebi. (2022). “I don’t know if I should say this”: Black Women, Oral History, and contesting the Great White North. In Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi. (Eds.), Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History. University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781487529178/unsettling-the-great-white-north/  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Anchor, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at https://melissajnelson.com. You can connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Martina Douglas from the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. Martina joins us to speak about her work as Director of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Unit. Episode Resources: Anima Leadership. (n.d.) Home. Retrieved June 14, 2023. https://animaleadership.com/  Oy Lein Jace Harrison, Lo Humeniuk & Dominica Tang. (2020). A Report on Diversity and Inclusion Experiences at the Faculty of Information. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXWHfO65Gk7ilyGKCpz95pk38H1Vdkbn/view?usp=drivesdk  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Anchor, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at https://melissajnelson.com. You can connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Dr. Mark V. Campbell, founding director and curator of Northside Hip Hop Archive. Mark joins us to speak about this digital collection of Canadian hip-hop history and culture. Episode Resources: About. (n.d.). Northside Hip Hop. Retrieved May 20, 2023, from https://www.nshharchive.ca  Mark V. Campbell. (February 2022). Still Tho: Aesthetic Survival in Hip-Hop’s Visual Art. Canadian Council for the Arts. https://canadacouncil.ca/about/ajagemo/still-tho  Statistics Canada. (May 10, 2023). Visible minority by occupation, highest level of education and generation status: Canada, provinces and territories. ⁠https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv!recreate.action?pid=9810033001&selectedNodeIds=6D1,7D370,8D5&checkedLevels=0D1,1D1,2D1,3D1,4D1&refPeriods=20210101,20210101&dimensionLayouts=layout2,layout2,layout2,layout2,layout2,layout2,layout3,layout2,layout2&vectorDisplay=false⁠ Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Anchor, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at https://melissajnelson.com. You can connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Olivia Wong, Special Collections Curatorial Specialist at Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries. Olivia joins us to speak about her anti-racist description work, which improves descriptions for those harmed by white supremacy and represents their histories more equitably and accurately. Episode Resources: Alison Skyrme, Cheryl Thompson, Emilie Jabouin, and Olivia Wong. (April 10, 2022). Canadian Blackface Culture: Confronting Racist Materials in Canadian Archives. Toronto Metropolitan University.  https://rshare.library.ryerson.ca/articles/presentation/Canadian_Blackface_Culture_Confronting_Racist_Materials_in_Canadian_Archives/15137016  Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia’s Anti-Racist Description Working Group (October 2019). Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia: Anti-Racist Description Resources https://archivesforblacklives.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/ardr_final.pdf Cheryl Thompson & Emilie Jabouin. (February 3, 2021). Blackface in the Kodak Archive, Ryerson’s Special Collections: Context for Reading ‘Racist’ Images, Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections. https://library.torontomu.ca/asc/2021/02/blackface-in-the-kodak-archive-ryersons-special-collections-context-for-reading-racist-images/ Melissa J. Nelson. Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials. Archives Association of Ontario. https://aao-archivists.ca/event-5228234  Jessica Tai. (2021). Cultural Humility as a Framework for Anti-Oppressive Archival Description, in “Radical Empathy in Archival Practice,” eds. Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Jasmine Jones, Shannon O’Neill, and Holly Smith. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 3, no. 2. https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/120  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on ⁠Anchor⁠, ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at ⁠melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com. ⁠

Summary: In this episode, I welcome Tonya Sutherland-Stewart, head of archive development and researcher for the Jackson Park Project. Tonya joins us to speak about the development of this digital archive of Emancipation Day celebrations in Windsor, Ontario.  Episode Resources: Audra Gray (Producer) & Katarzyna Kochany (Director). (2019). Journey Back to Jackson Park. CBC Gem. https://cbcgem.app/hZ36RNiJek1emeL19  Jackson Park Project. (Sep 21, 2022). Culture Days 2022: Savouring Food & Freedom Extended Version. YoutTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHCoVxNWZQ&t=7s  The Jackson Park Project [@jacksonparkproject]. (n.d.). Instagram profile. Retrieved from, https://instagram.com/jacksonparkproject?igshid=MDE2OWE1N2Q=  Royal Ontario Museum. (Jul 27, 2020). Emancipation Day: Canada’s Past, Present & Future. YoutTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA4f-lmpm9w&t=1s  Royal Ontario Museum. (Aug 10, 2020). Emancipation Day: The Greatest Freedom Show on Earth. YoutTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDKslDG-ujk&t=17s  Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on ⁠Anchor⁠, ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at ⁠melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com. ⁠

Summary: Welcome to the opener for season 2! In this episode, I welcome Dr. Kristin Moriah, Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture in the English Department at Queen’s University. Kristin joins us to speak about her work expanding research on Black political organizing in Canada and the United States. Episode Resources: Colored Conventions Project. (n.d.). University of Delaware. https://coloredconventions.org/ Douglass Day 2023 featuring the Papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. February 14, 2023. https://douglassday.org/ Melissa J. Nelson, Lopez Matthews and Sean Smith. Roundtable: Activating Archives and Anniversaries. Mary Ann Shadd Cary in the Here and Now Symposium. Penn State’s Center for Black Digital Research. Virtual. October 2, 2021. https://bwoaproject.org/events/shadd-cary/shadd-cary-symposium/ Stay Connected: If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on ⁠Anchor⁠, ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠. To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at ⁠melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com. ⁠