QBBE still on guard for our students
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QBBE still on guard for our students

The Quebec Board of Black Educators (QBBE) has long been a pillar of support for Quebec students. As the summer approaches, the organization is getting ready to kick off...

CCFA: Weaponized incompetence collides with callous disregard
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CCFA: Weaponized incompetence collides with callous disregard

The uproar that followed the recent announcement by the City of Montreal to pull the funding of the 2023 edition of Carifiesta is an interesting one. Cries of racism...

CANADIAN PUBLIC SERVICE NOT A HAPPY WORKPLACE FOR BLACKS Opinions

CANADIAN PUBLIC SERVICE NOT A HAPPY WORKPLACE FOR BLACKS

Included among the multitude of issues that are on the table for negotiations in the ongoing strike by more than 100,000 federal government workers represented by the Public Service...

Of racial nepotism and other hypocrisies
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Of racial nepotism and other hypocrisies

In his book Ethnic Conflicts Explained by Ethnic Nepotism, sociologist Tatu Vanhanen describes the term “ethnic nepotism” as a human tendency toward in-group bias or favoritism among people of...

Premier Francois Legault has mastered the politics of division
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Premier Francois Legault has mastered the politics of division

Following his Easter Monday tweet claiming Catholicism as part of this province’s heritage, Quebec Premier Francois is doing his very best to be seen as an equal opportunity offender...

Black Police Officers: To be blue and Black
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Black Police Officers: To be blue and Black

The presage Black police officers have to negotiate and reconcile on two historically distinct strivings… to be “blue” and to be “black” — in one “dark body. Before arriving...

SILENT COVENANTS
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SILENT COVENANTS

In his book Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform, Dr. Derrick Bell suggests that policies related to issues of race in...

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Closing Roxham Road is another wrong heaped on refugees

Unless they reverse their inglorious act, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government will forever be remembered for the injustice and potential harm that they have heaped on...

CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY
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CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY

First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak...

Black History Month 2023: Je me souviens !
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Black History Month 2023: Je me souviens !

Black History Month (BMH) 2023 has come and gone. Let’s remember, lest we forget! On February 1st, the City of Montreal and the Service de police de la Ville...