Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia — Attraction in Cherry Brook

This is a place one must visit a few times a year to learn, relearn, and to better ones understanding of NS's history.

Start with the video and take in the Portia White exhibit. You will appreciate all the personal artifacts on display (check out the public library or nimbus publishing to get a copy of the books written about her). Next visit the 2 gallery rooms that introduce to the people who left their mark on NS. Then head out to the main lobby and take some time to read the banners, front and back, before you head upstairs.

If you are into military history, or boxing, hockey and other sports, spend time learning more about William Hall, Buddy Daye, etc. Feel free to sit and read from the library on this floor too.

This is not about being woke: this is about making sense of how one of the people of NS came to be, their accomplishments and how they continue...

Thank you to the many involved in the establishment, maintenance, and continuity of the Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia. Visiting BCCNS - and reflecting upon the long-standing African presence of the Maritimes - was of central importance to me in visiting Nova Scotia. I gratefully appreciate the research and thoughtful curation attesting to the strength, resistance, and to the love and pride of African community - through generations and centuries - in attractive display. The modest edifice clearly belies a pride of history that is significant and remarkable. Likkle but...

This is one of the few places that speaks about Blacks in Nova Scotia. It shows the hidden history that should be taught in schools and at the border for new people. I'm glad that I was able to take my son and explain things to him, the truth about the origin of Blacks in NS. This building houses so...