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TORONTO, ON - September 2026 - Cameroonian-Canadian filmmaker Tina Nalova has won Best First Short Film at TINFF@10, the 10th anniversary edition of the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, for her debut short film Till Truth Do Us Part. Nalova wrote, directed, produced, edited and stars in the film, making the recognition a significant milestone for her work as a multi-hyphenate independent creator in Canada.

“My grandma has become obsessed with some old soul AI, Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway-style artists. She was so excited to tell me and I was like grandma—none of these are real people.” Two-time Juno award-winning singer-songwriter Lala Noel never saw this coming. A few years ago, if you'd told her she'd one day break her grandmother's heart with the news that her new favourite artist wasn't a real person, she'd have assumed you were pitching a movie.

“My grandma has become obsessed with some old soul AI, Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway-style artists. She was so excited to tell me and I was like grandma—none of these are real people.” Two-time Juno award-winning singer-songwriter Lala Noel never saw this coming. A few years ago, if you'd told her she'd one day break her grandmother's heart with the news that her new favourite artist wasn't a real person, she'd have assumed you were pitching a movie.

BRAMPTON, ON — September 1, 2026 — The Afro Caribbean Business Network (ACBN) has opened a $1.5 million community bond raise to complete the financing of its affordable senior and community housing development at 175 Springbank Avenue in Woodstock, Ontario. The project already carries $16 million in secured government funding, is targeted for full occupancy in December 2027, and will be owned by the community when it is complete. Fifty per cent of the units will be offered below market rent.

As a co-founder of an AI-based technology company, I opened it with a rare feeling: optimism. Here, at last, was a federal announcement that seemed to be sincerely trying to bridge the gap between Ottawa’s tech ambitions and the capital-starved reality of Black entrepreneurship in Canada.

"To be a Black Canadian is to Live in Contradiction," says artist Camille Turner. Her exhibit Camille Turner: Hometown Queen, showing at the Art Gallery of Hamilton until January 2027, explores that contradiction through a 30-year retrospective. The show spans her performance work as Miss Canadiana, her Afrofuturist pieces, Canada's ugly history with slavery, and her own family's story.

Inaugural Canadian Black Literary Festival brings an extraordinary gathering of Black Canadian writers, performers, readers and literary creators to Durham Region on August 29 AJAX, ONTARIO – In just 15 days, some of the most accomplished and compelling voices in Black Canadian literature will converge in Ajax for the inaugural Canadian Black Literary Festival (#CBLF2026), a full day of literary performance, conversation, creation and community taking place on Saturday, August 29, 2026.

DIRECTORY Black Rabbit Gallery is an artist-led contemporary gallery based in Toronto. Built on the belief that there is no single path to success in the arts, Black Rabbit champions artists whose work sparks conversation, invites reflection, and connects people through shared human experience. After forging an internationally recognized career in his own terms, Benny founded Black Rabbit to open doors for artists through exhibitions, mentorship, and community.

One of the most intimate terrors of spending more than twenty years loving Black children through public-sector work is knowing that the world may one day meet them through devastation and mistake that moment for who they were. The fear lives somewhere between memory and anticipation, surfacing whenever a young person disappears, whenever a neighbourhood begins speaking in lowered voices, or whenever I open my phone and see the name of a place where I once worked beside the word "shooting".

“Here - Moncton.” “No, where are you really from?” This series of questions bothered me my entire life until I once snapped and said, “I was born on the second floor of the Moncton hospital, but if you’re trying to ask why I’m Black, my dad is from Senegal.” It is questions like this, the constant judging and scrutiny that Black and other racialized people face, that led Dr. Mary McCarthy, her son Thandiwe McCarthy and photographer Gary Weekes to collaborate on the book Still Here: Preserving...