The Canadian Institute for People of African Descent (CIPAD) positions itself as the first-ever institute dedicated to conducting research on the state of Blackness in Canada out of which...

Joel DeBellefeuille is on a mission. The Longueuil resident who won a landmark racial profiling case against that city’s police department has launched a Canada-wide initiative to dismantle systemic...

In 1961 when I decided to go abroad to study, Canada was the overwhelming choice over Britain and the United States. Britain was associated with colonialism while racism against Black...

If you remember, when Ben Johnson won the Olympic Gold Medal for Canada it was horah, horah for Ben and the country. Nothing was said about his original homeland,...

Canada is faced with yet another shocker in less than a month with the discovery of more than 750 unmarked graves near a former Catholic residential school for First...

Montreal-born Dr. Natasha Johnson continues to make headways in her area of specialty, combining her work as a clinician and her advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged groups who have...

Ultimately the goal of the recently launched Quebec Black Communities Observatory is community development and to empower Afro-Quebecers. According to program director Désirée Rochat the Observatory “will merge and...

Rosie Awori (LJI) In its wake the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 waves left a string of furloughs, layoffs, pay cuts, long term illnesses and deaths. And studies within both Canada...

Many historians argue that the Holocaust is the undisputed genocide of all genocides, and that no other dark period in human history quite compares to it have argued it....

As far as police and Black people go, “No news is good news.” And for me it’s truly a feeling of relief when I wake up another day to...