Letters to America

Esi Edugyan: For true systemic shifts to occur, everyone has to recognize that the whole underlying structure is so irreparably broken that no one can afford to live like this anymore

Eternity Martis: Black women, who experience ‘misogy­noir,’ a mix of misogyny and racism, are also aggressively punished by police

Ian Williams: ‘Dear cell phone companies,’ There are software issues with your phones that I won’t get into. My date and time function is frozen in the 18th century.

Andray Domise: ‘To my brothers and sisters in America,’ you may be unaware that Canada aligned itself against your lives when it mattered

Rinaldo Walcott: There has been something animated by the death of George Floyd that is deeply familiar and that calls out for something more—something beyond mere redress, arrest and conviction

Sandy Hudson: ‘Dear white people,’ through your inaction, you show us your inherent belief system—a Black life lived with dignity is unreasonable, and a liberated Black life is impossible.

Eight writers pen open letters to America addressing the task of confronting racism that—deny it as some Canadians might—persists in their own country

Seventeen years after his trailblazing father’s death, author Lawrence Hill pleads for guidance as anti-Black violence engulfs the U.S.—but runs rampant in Canada, too

Desmond Cole: Things are different, but not enough to save us. And once we cross over you, we must be quiet, like grateful and humbled guests in a museum.

Photographers on the ground during protests and riots across the U.S. capture images of pain, resilience and the aftermath of police brutality