Remember Africville

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 underutilized park Former residents their descendants and some of the decisionmakers speak out and with the help of archival photographs and films tell the story of that painful relocation