Instead of adopting any of the prefabricated labels that are currently used in the political arena, I have chosen to define myself as a rationalist. What is that you...

One of the takeaways filmmaker Michèle Stephenson has from her most recent documentary is that statelessness is an example of extreme anti-Black racism: “it is bureaucratic violence and it’s...

Rosie Awori (LJI) For the past five years complaints about racial profiling by the Repentigny police force (Service de police de la Ville de Repentigny or SPVR.) have been increasing. Things...

If 2021-22 is your frosh year at Concordia University, count yourself lucky as the Black Perspectives Office (BPO) will be on your side from orientation to graduation. Founded in...

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...