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Fabienne Colas on racism, diversity and inclusion

February 15, 2017
| Fabienne and Face2Face host David Peck talk about the Toronto Black Film Festival, racism, diversity, inclusion and making a difference in the world.
Length: 21:26 minutes (14.72 MB)
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Halifax councillor Lindell Smith is more than a symbol
By
Stephen Kimber
| October 26, 2016

First, of course, there is the symbolism. Lindell Smith is Halifax's first Black city councillor since 2000.

But not just... Early in his race for District 8, a campaign worker warned the corn-rowed, goateed Smith he'd have to "deal with people looking at you like you're Snoop Dogg trying to be a politician." Rather than change, Smith made sure voters in white neighbourhoods also got to know bright-young-local-library-assistant-crime-prevention-advocate-inspirational-public-speaker Smith, too.

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Unlearning anti-Black racism 101: Stop Canadiansplaining
By
Chelby Daigle
| September 5, 2016

- splaining: a combining form extracted from mansplain, and meaning "to explain or comment on something in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner, from the perspective of the group one identifies with" 

So what is "Canadiansplaining"?

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Nine lessons from Toronto's anti-racism Directorate meeting
By
Phillip Dwight Morgan
| July 15, 2016

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Breaking down the arguments and mistruths against BLMTO's Pride insurrection
By
Bonnie Burstow
| July 8, 2016

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I was in the midst of penning an article on a very different topic a short while ago when two related phenomenon took my breath away. The first was the Black Lives Matter action in Toronto's Gay Pride march, together with the very cogent explanations thereof.

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#BlackLivesMatter: Beyond Tent City part 2

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This is part two of rabble's interview with Black Lives Matter organizer Janaya Khan. Read part one here.

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Nova Scotia has a race problem
By
Stephen Kimber
| May 3, 2016

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Where to begin?

With the too-soon deaths of three young Black men murdered in separate incidents within a week last month?

Or with last Monday's announcement the provincial government is restructuring -- which is to say, eliminating --  a community-based program in North and East Preston, Cherry Brook and Lake Loon that had been helping young African Nova Scotians find jobs since 1983?

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A community challenging racial profiling in stores

April 20, 2016
| Pastor Lennett Anderson and Ann Divine talk about one community's challenge to both a specific case and the broader issue of consumer racial profiling.
Length: 28:19 minutes (25.94 MB)
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Black Lives Matter Vancouver chapter organizes in solidarity with Toronto

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For 15 days, the Black Lives Matter Toronto chapter camped outside the Toronto police headquarters, demonstrating against systematic anti-Black racism and demanding an inquest to the death of Andrew Loku at the hands of police.

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Black Lives Matter: BlackOUT Saturday March 26

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On Friday March 18, the Toronto Police Special Investigations Unit found that the officer who fatally shot Andrew Loku would not face charges.

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