Srijoni Rahman “There hasn’t been a time in the last 50 years when we have not marched on the streets of Toronto calling out to put an end to racism,” she exclaimed into the microphone. “And so here we are again. … Here we are many years later doing the same thing, calling attention to…
Tag: Visible Minorities
The Problem with Diversity in Policy and Academia
Anna-Kay Russell I recently came across a timely article published in the University of Toronto’s Bulletin Report. In the lead up to Black History Month, Huda Hassan, a Black female and Ph.D. student in Women & Gender Studies, achieved Twitter fame for doing something quite unique: she tweeted an invitation to all Black female students…
Toronto Police: “To Serve and Suspect”
Amelia Bredo On a sunny Saturday afternoon, three teenagers, whose names have been withheld for privacy, waited for a friend outside of Parkdale Collegiate Institute, a high school located in an ethnically and economically diverse neighbourhood in Toronto. As one of the few public areas in the neighbourhood, this was an obvious choice for a meeting…
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