Black Lives Matter

Alicia Lue: ’Reliving and assuming each other’s traumas will not dismantle white supremacy. The onus falls squarely at the feet of our shared oppressors.’ 

The Torontonian—who grew up in a tin shack in Jamaica and went on to establish a top shareholder advisory firm—launched the BlackNorth Initiative to nudge social change starting in Canada’s boardrooms

BLM-Canada co-founder Sandy Hudson on the riots at the U.S. Capitol and how anti-Black hatred has been permitted to grow in political strength without consequence

The Black Lives Matter activists have a discussion on what needs to happen next after a devastating but also inspiring year

Harvard professor Michael Sandel argues the Western world has ’outsourced our moral judgment to markets’ and wrongly assumed that ’the money people make is the measure of their contribution to the common good’

Pam Palmater: A much larger and more powerful movement than the last, led by Black and Indigenous peoples and supported by millions of Canadians

Andray Domise: This structure not only eroded the modes that Africans had long thrived on and carried out in their tradition, it drove the production of social and environmental ruin

Image of the Week: Matt Dumba’s anthem-kneel kicked off the playoffs—and an uncharacteristic flurry of self-examination

Ravyn Wngz: On July 18, Black Lives Matter Toronto held an art demonstration that involved painting and stencilling three racist statues in pink. To me, the colour pink represents life—vibrant, bold and free.

Matthew Amha: NBA star Draymond Green’s ill-informed comments about Black Lives Matter in Canada have inspired a broader debate about the Black-Canadian freedom struggle