In Lafayette Park, just steps away from the White House, a wealthy hotelier ran a second business selling enslaved men and women to the highest bidder. He kept them in a brick cell beside his mansion, and at night an… Continue Reading
close Video President Trump’s plan for Black America designates the KKK and Antifa as terrorist organizations and calls for making lynching a national hate crime, while pledging to increase access to capital in Black communities by nearly $500 billion, Fox… Continue Reading
President Trump unveiled a plan for Black America on Friday, in a bid to woo Black voters with loans and lofty economic promises—though some of the assurances run counter to the president’s rhetoric and track record. JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – SEPTEMBER… Continue Reading
Racism refers to a variety of practices, beliefs, social relations, and phenomena that work to reproduce a racial hierarchy and social structure that yield superiority, power, and privilege for some, and discrimination and oppression for others. It can take several forms,… Continue Reading
(Illustration: iStock) In the wake of several deaths of Black and Indigenous people at the hands of the police and RCMP, protests against police brutality have sparked conversations about systemic racism, both in Canada and the U.S. What these conversations… Continue Reading
The racial wound at the center of the coronavirus pandemic in the US continues to fester, with latest data showing that African Americans have died from the disease at almost three times the rate of white people. New figures compiled… Continue Reading
Now the revised entry for racism has finally arrived, included in the online update Merriam-Webster published yesterday. As promised, the entry underscores some nuances, though the revision is not a complete rewrite. As before, the first definition given relates to… Continue Reading
What is racism, really? The word is thrown around all the time today by Black and white people alike. The use of the term racism has become so popular that it’s spun off related terms such as reverse racism, horizontal… Continue Reading
Equity around race, pay and opportunity is the theme that is fuelled much debate around boardroom tables of late. Racism and systemic inequality around pay, has long been a causal concern of many Black professionals. In these current times of… Continue Reading
For a moment this summer, it appeared that the Black Lives Matter movement was in a position to get everything it claimed to have wanted. Instead, here in September, it’s back to the mostly symbolic existence to which it has… Continue Reading
