Tag: Black Politics

For over 200 years, Black people have built community and taken care of one another in so-called Waterloo, Ontario.

In her new book “Black Disability Politics,” Sami Schalk highlights the Black disability justice activism overlooked by mainstream disability rights movements and writing.

If “the 1990s were Black,” why is anti-Blackness still cemented into Canadian society today? Phillip Dwight Morgan reviews Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi’s BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom.

Black and Indigenous people cannot look to the state for protection or systemic change. Instead, our movements have to recognize the differences between our oppressions, and stand beside each other while building new, shared spaces to exist.

Excerpt from Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History, published by Verso in 1992, 2015.

The correct emotional response to state violence targeting Indigenous and Black families is rage.