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Op-ed: COVID at a crossroads for Toronto’s Black communities
We’ve heard it repeated so many times over the past two years that our mouths move in sync with its weary cadence every time: COVID-19 has exacerbated... -
Photobook As We Rise captures the vast beauty of Black life
Courtesy the artist and Wedge Collection At its best, photography has a way of holding us in its thrall, forcing us to grapple with its... -
Coronavirus: Are the Afro-pessimists right?
COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on Black lives across the world. In the U.S., where race-based data is widely collected – if not always readily available... -
Black Futures Month: Five Torontonians push for progressive change
While surviving within economic structures rigidly defined by entrenched racial and neoliberal capitalism, it’s often difficult to speak of the word “investment” without signaling allusions... -
Desmond Cole wants to dispel Canada’s “magical thinking” on race
FUTURES: DESMOND COLE on Wednesday (February 5) at the Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas West). 7 pm. Free. Pre-register for advance tickets. ago.ca. Since the... -
Prince’s memoir can’t help but disappoint on several levels
"If U’re funky, even on a ballad U’ll hear it, It’s just what U R.” So sayeth Prince, the funk-pop-rock master, who died tragically... -
Canada Election 2019: How will people of colour vote?
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... -
Canada Election 2019: How will people of colour vote?
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 into... -
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer reimagines the slave narrative
By writing bestselling books such as The Beautiful Struggle and Between The World And Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates has arguably become the most influential essayist of... -
Getting the word out on literacy
Most people take the skills of reading and writing (and numeracy) for granted. We think of them as something that’s naturally acquired in the primary... -
Toni Morrison the mere mention of her name meant protest
I first encountered Toni Morrison’s work in my late high school years, just before she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, back when... -
It’s time to re-think what it means to be Black in Canada
In BlackLife: Post-BLM And The Struggle For Freedom (ARP Books, $15), authors Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi argue for the need to re-think what it... -
Reclaiming Caribbean history one photo at a time
The hackneyed and lazy understanding of the Caribbean is often situated between surface accounts of transatlantic slavery on the one hand and the excesses of... -
Author Marlon James finds sensual and queer inspirations in ancient Africa
MARLON JAMES as part of CURIOUS MINDS WEEKEND at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema (506 Bloor West), Sunday (March 3), 5pm. $19. hotdocs.ca. Marlon James... -
Black Futures Month: Five Torontonians want to make 2019 the year for change
Samuel Engelking In the ongoing pursuit of emancipation, Black communities find themselves future-driven and optimistic while painfully awake to the wounds of entrenched anti-Black racism...
