Phillip Dwight Morgan is a Toronto-based essayist and poet of Jamaican heritage. His writings on race and politics have appeared in Maclean’s, CBC, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, the Huffington Post, and several Canadian magazines.
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MagazineBlack radical love in Waterloo
For over 200 years, Black people have built community and taken care of one another in so-called Waterloo, Ontario.
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MagazineThe Canadian state and Black disregard
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.
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MagazineSchool Dispatch
Police officers are stationed in high schools across Toronto under the guise of ensuring school safety. With powers to search and arrest students, they criminalize student conduct and build mistrust and alienation among marginalized students.
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MagazineFree Trade Agreement
“Free Trade Agreement” is the runner-up for best poem in the 2015 Writing in the Margins contest.
