Op-ed: COVID at a crossroads for Toronto’s Black communities
COVID-19 could become a manageable, endemic disease for most but remain a deadly, life-altering and acute illness for Black people
Neil Price
February 1, 2022
COVID-19 could become a manageable, endemic disease for most but remain a deadly, life-altering and acute illness for Black people
Several Toronto artists are included in collector Kenneth Montague’s poignant compilation
Like many Black people, I have moved hesitantly between hope and despair for most of my adult years. But COVID-19 has seriously arrested my equivocation
The activist/journalist’s debut book The Skin We’re In chronicles 12 months in the struggle for Black liberation
Despite being unfinished, The Beautiful Ones manages to be an eclectic, well-crafted volume of autobiographical fragments
I grew up revering Pierre Elliott Trudeau even before I really knew who he was. This bizarre (and mildly embarrassing) coming-of-age circumstance, which lasted well
No matter how this election plays out, let’s at least do away with oversimplified narratives about what Black people think of electoral politics
The American essayist’s debut novel tackles the legacy of slavery with a fast-paced comic-book treatment
Low-level literacy underlies so many of the challenges facing the city, including gun violence, homelessness and unemployment
In bringing her imaginative powers to bear on an art that for so long marginalized Black presence, the great American novelist transformed modern literature
In the book BlackLife, authors Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi argue that incremental efforts to combat anti-Black racism won’t work
The AGO’s newly acquired Caribbean photo collection is one of the largest outside the region and deeply meaningful to the community that fundraised to secure it