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Today we acknowledge and commemorate Emancipation Day!

Emancipation Day, celebrated on August 1st, is the day The Slavery Abolition Act became law in the British Empire (including Canada) in 1834. The...

The African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD) is pleased to have been awarded $4.8 million in funding from the N

The ANSDPAD mourns and honours the 215 Indigenous Children found in an unmarked grave...

Black Lives Matter Solidarity Fund to help ANS groups fund new projects in Nova Scotia

The African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition has teamed up Big Spruce Brewing of Cape Breton, N.S. for the release of ...

In 2020, the international community marks the midterm of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2020 (IDPAD)...

Join the Justice Strategy Working Group from 6pm- 8pm on December 14, 2020 and be apart of the important virtual discussion on how the criminal ju..

Over 30 years ago the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall Jr. Prosecution officially recognized systemic racism in the justice system and its...

The ANSDPAD new office signage is here! Stop by the office to see the sign today.

Canada actively participated in the transatlantic slave trade and enslavement of African People;

The recent traumatic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and George Floyd have affected the African Nova Scotian (ANS) community as ...

Members of the African Nova Scotian Decade for Persons of African Descent (ANSDPAD) Coalition are pictured receiving a 2019 Nova Scotia Human...

Members of the African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD) left a meeting Thursday evening, April 11, organized...

We are almost halfway through the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), which focuses on three pillars...