Negro Community Centre

• Montrealers remember victims of one of the city’s worst maritime tragedies

  "I don't understand.  We teach basketball, we teach football, we teach soccer, all these other sports but we don't teach them how to swim and it's mandatory in the school system."

  Canada

  Jul 12, 2023
  
• Montreal purchases land of historic Black community centre in city’s Southwest

  City council voted to purchase the property that was once occupied by the Negro Community Centre (NCC) on Coursol Street in Little Burgundy, in the city's Southwest borough.

  Canada

  Dec 29, 2022
  
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• Montreal’s black community celebrates Emancipation Day

  Members of Montreal's Black Community held several events on Sunday to recognize Emancipation Day. It is to officially mark the abolishment of slavery nearly 200 years ago.

  Canada

  Aug 1, 2021
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• Citizen group presents plan to revive historic Montreal Black community centre

  The NCC- Rev. Charles H. Este Committee wants to bring the NCC back.

  Politics

  Jul 25, 2020
• This week on Focus Montreal: April 8

  This week on Focus Montreal: The EMSB celebrates its volunteers, local cartoonist Aislin featured in McCord Museusm's new exhibit and Concordia students shine the light on Montreal's now defunct Negro Community Centre.

  Canada

  Apr 9, 2017
• Nelson Mandela Pavilion inaugurated in Montreal

  The Nelson Mandela Pavilion in Côte-des-Neiges was inaugurated on Wednesday night.

  Canada

  Dec 4, 2014
• NCC razed after attempts to save it fail in court

  Montreal's Negro Community Centre is being demolished, but city officials say they are trying to prevent condos from being built on the site.

  Canada

  Nov 20, 2014
• Questions on sale still surround Negro Community Centre

  With borough officials confirming that a deal has been done, no official documents have been signed that would confirm the sale of the NCC is final.

  Sep 9, 2014
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• Questions, but few answers, emerge about NCC

  A clutch of concerned citizens met in a basement in Little Burgundy to discuss the future of the historic but ill-fated Negro Community Centre.

  Sep 4, 2014
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• A community left in the dark when it comes to NCC’s future

  Montreal's black community is in shambles as word circulates that efforts to save the NCC may have been in vain.

  Aug 30, 2014