Honouring Rural Black Voices
Black & Rural is a nationally funded artistic inquiry into the hearts and minds of black folks tucked away on Canada’s countryside. Project lead, Shayna Jones, aims to seek out, honour, and showcase stories from rurally based Blacks (like herself) to nuance and challenge the monolith of what matters to Black Lives.
This, the Black & Rural website, will serve as a digital gallery of the insights and reflections collected from African-descent rural Canadians across the country.
We acknowledge, with reverence, that we are making our voices heard upon the ancestral, unceded, and unsurrendered territories of over 630 First Nations communities across this land.
As we come to understand our stories may we all honour and reverence this land together.
