Rinaldo Walcott

Esi Edugyan, Robyn Maynard, Syrus Marcus Ware and Ian Williams join Desmond Cole on Maclean’s Live

The extraordinary group of writers and commentators and artists sat down with guest host Desmond Cole for a conversation about systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement. Watch the full replay now.

Former NFL player Tyrone Carter hugs a protester at the site where George Floyd was killed (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune/ Getty Images)

We must work toward an abolitionist future for our world

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