Delvina Bernard

This short film depicts Africville, a small black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. More than 20 years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.

Radical politics were raging in Halifax in the late 1960s, but in sleepy Lake Loon, it took the arrival of a mysterious man from the USA to awaken Black Consciousness in the mind of ten-year-old Deanna Sparks.