Media Coverage of Africville

Africville replica church celebrated
CBC News: Septembre 24, 2011
The replica of Nova Scotia's historic Africville church was revealed Sunday, but the church wasn't quite ready for visitors.

Halifax park renamed Africville
CBC News: July 29, 2011
The Halifax site where a black community once stood is once again called Africville. Seaview Park in north-end Halifax was officially renamed at a ceremony Friday.

Africville project won’t be ready for reunion
Chronicle Herald | July 7, 2011
But organizer says memorial will open in September

Africville church plans unveiled in Halifax
CBC.ca | November 30, 2010
Plans for a replica of the historic Seaview United Baptist Church, which will serve as a memorial to Africville, were unveiled to the public in Halifax Saturday.

A project to remember, finally
Chronicle Herald | January 16, 2011
The Africville Heritage Trust unveiled plans Saturday for a remembrance project in Halifax it hopes will be an inviting tribute to community spirit and a future destination for black history enthusiasts.

Africville trust gets title to hectare of Seaview land
Chronicle Herald | January 15, 2011
Almost a year after terms of a redress deal were released, the deed for slightly more than one hectare of land in a Halifax park has been transferred to the new Africville Heritage Trust.

Africville memorial design complete
CBC.ca | November 30, 2010
The chair of the Africville Heritage Trust in Halifax says design plans for a memorial to the bulldozed community are ready. "We've done an awful lot of work getting preparations, getting things organized. You can't build something as significant as this overnight," said Doreen Lewis.

Africville trust gets $2.5 million
Chronicle Herald| November 27, 2010
Halifax Regional Municipality has written a $2.5-million cheque to honour a major part of its redress pledge to the former community of Africville.

'Remember Africville' added to NFB's website
Chronicle Herald| April 20, 2010
Online now is Remember Africville (1991) by the late filmmaker Shelagh Mackenzie which depicts Halifax’s black community of Africville. In the 1960s, the families who lived there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration.

The Power of Ideas [PDF]
Progress Magazine | April 2010
Editorial from Progress Magazine. PDF Format. "A major focus of the society for the past 25 years has been the idea of resurrecting the Seaview United Baptist Church."

Irvine Carvery:‘It’ll look exactly the same
Halifax News Net | March 3, 2010
Last week’s historic Africville apology from HRM will transform the unused land outside of what is currently known as Seaview Park and the whole area will once more be called Africville.

Human rights veteran recalls Africville fight
Chronicle Herald | Feb 28, 2010
He’s carved a national reputation as a hard-working human rights advocate, but Alan Borovoy’s long career was in its infancy decades ago when he accepted an assignment that sent him to Halifax’s Africville district.

Africville deal details in report
Chronicle Herald | Feb 26, 2010
It includes a chronology of deal-making events leading to the multimillion-dollar pact between the Africville Genealogy Society and Halifax Regional Municipality, and previously unreported financial information.

Urban renewal was progressive way to do things, in 1960s thinking Chronicle Herald | Feb 26, 2010
Progressive isn’t a word that’s usually associated with the destruction of Africville.

Celebrating our story (at last) [External Link]
The Coast Feature| February 24, 2010
Nova Scotia's black history is rich and remarkable—Birchtown was North America's largest settlement of free blacks when it was founded in 1783—but rarely acknowledged.

Photos: An Apology for Africville [External Link]
The Coast/Reality Bites | February 24, 2010
Say what you will about the delivery of the speech or the words themselves, but I thought Kelly delivered a surprisingly straightforward, direct statement.

Apology from HRM to the residents of Africville. [External Link]
Chronicle Herald | February 24, 2010
"We are sorry." With those words Wednesday morning, Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly began to tell a roomful of people at a community centre gymnasium the details of a $3-million settlement between the city and the former residents of Africville. Kelly asked for forgiveness and apologized to community elders, including those who did not live to see the settlement come to fruition, for the pain and loss of dignity they experienced when the community was taken apart in the 1960s.

Bulldozed and steamrolled - Africville was powerless to fight city hall
Chronicle Herald | February 25, 2010
Charles Vaughan, Halifax’s mayor at the time, assured Africville residents that the city would do everything in its power to make their removal from their community as "painless as possible."

Halifax apologizes for razing Africville
CBC News | February 24, 2010
The former residents of a bulldozed black community and their descendants have received an official apology from the mayor of Halifax.

Africville gets unanimous OK from council
Metro Halifax | February 24, 2010
Halifax regional council was forced to take a brief recess last night after shouting erupted when they voted to ratify a reparations package for the former community of Africville.

Africville receives long-awaited apology, settlement
Edmonton Journal/Canwest | February 24, 2010
Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly apologized Wednesday for the 'terrible upheaval'. experienced by the former residents of Africville.

Halifax council ratifies Africville apology [External Link]
CBC News | February 23, 2010.
Halifax regional council has ratified a deal that will see former residents of Africville and their descendants receive an official apology — four decades after the City of Halifax razed the black community to make room for a bridge.

Carvery, Blue Engine String Quartet, Gray present Mosaic
Chronicle Herald | Feb 22, 2010
Irvine Carvery, president of the Africville Genealogical Society, will read his poem We are Africville at the Maritime Mosaic: Let It Shine concert, with Halifax’s Blue Engine String Quartet.

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HRM, former residents reach deal on Africville reparations
METRO HALIFAX | Mon. Feb 22, 2010
A long-sought reparation deal to former residents of Africville now seems imminent.

Africville trust gets financial boost
Chronicle Herald | February 22, 2010
A plan to create a memorial project on the grounds of the former black community of Africville got a financial shot in the arm Sunday.

Africville dispute may be settled
CBC News | February 21, 2010
The City of Halifax and the federal government may soon settle a decades-old dispute with the former residents of Africville.

Honouring local leaders
Halifax News Net | Halifax Weekly News | February 18, 2010
Community leaders from North Preston and Halifax were among an elite list inducted into the Rev. Dr. W.P. Oliver Wall of Honour in a ceremony at the Black Cultural Centre Saturday night.

Rebuilding efforts bypassed Africville
Chronicle Herald - The Nova Scotian | December 6, 2009
There was relief aplenty after the Halifax Explosion on Dec. 6, 1917, but not across the tracks

New Africville book could fill void in school curriculum
Halifax News Net | Halifax Weekly News | August 6, 2009
A book launched in Halifax last week aims to address a gaping hole in the curriculum of Nova Scotian schools, its writer said.

North-end Halifax street to be named Africville Road
Halifax News Net | Halifax Weekly News | August 6, 2009
Near the start of the five-day festival, the road into what is now called Seaview Park was changed from Service Road to Africville Road.

Community gathers to remember Africville's story
Metro News Halifax | August 4, 2009
Not only is it a time to make new memories with family and friends in Seaview Memorial Park, but it’s also a time to remember hardships faced by former Africville residents.

North-end Halifax street to be named Africville Road
Halifax Weekly News | August 3, 2009
A North End Halifax road will receive a significant honour on July 31 when it is renamed in recognition of the historic community of Africville.

In praise of Africville memories
Chronicle Herald | August 3, 2009
Organizers of this year’s Africville reunion in Halifax’s Seaview Park stretched the annual event to a five-day happening over the Natal Day weekend. It started Thursday.

Africville Road takes its historic place
Chronicle Herald | August 1, 2009
An Aricville ceremony Friday in north-end Halifax helped take the edge off decades of hurt and years of trying to right a past wrong.

Africville's racism documented
The Coast | July 30 - August 5, 2009.
Africville: Can't Stop Now, a documentary about Eddie, Nelson and Irvine Carvery's lifelong search for compensation.

Commemorating end of slavery
Chronicle Herald | July 31, 2009
People all over Halifax will be celebrating Natal Day this weekend, but Saturday marks a particularly special event for some Nova Scotians.

City commemorates Africville by re-naming road
Metro Halifax | July 28, 2009
A road in the north end of Halifax will be officially re-named Friday in recognition of the community of Africville.

Documentary follows Carvery family's struggle for Africville
Metro News | July 28, 2009
A village of tents will repopulate the empty Seaview Memorial Park in Halifax Thursday night for the annual Africville Reunion.

Africville: Can’t Stop Now airs on CBC
Chronicle Herald | July 25, 2009
Forty years after the residents of Africville were forced out of their Halifax neighbourhood, their descendants are still seeking a resolution.

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