Faculty of Education Professor Carl James was on CP24 to discuss how to talk about race and anti-Black racism to children. He highlighted the importance of teaching children about race at a young age and understanding that racism is a systemic problem in Canadian society as well.
Protests erupted across the United States, Canada, and the world over the weekend, as thousands demonstrated against racism and police brutality, specifically towards members of the Black community. These demonstrations, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, aim to seek justice for George Floyd. Floyd was killed during an arrest in Minnesota on May […]
The Downsview community mourns the loss of Sharon Roberts who was a PSW for more than 24 years at the Downsview Long Term Care Centre whose life was lost to COVID-19. Downsview currently mourns this frontline hero. The impacts of COVID-19 on racialized and disenfranchised communities have been well-documented. Professor Carl James at York University’s […]
York University professor Carl James talks about how the challenges faced by third-generation Black Canadians could be a bellwether for other racialized immigrant groups. Two key data sets show why this latest snapshot has significant implications for the Black community, said James, who, as a member of the Working Group on Black Communities, offered advice […]
“Community plays a significant role in our lives and in our educational pursuits. Hence, the questions which we pursue in our teaching, service work, and/or are informed by the community to which we belong or with which we identify. So, it is understandable that my entry into sociology, in part, would be inspired, my questions […]
The Faculty of Education’s Black History Month event, “Word, Sound, Power: Black Artistic Expression”, invited members of the public to learn more about the origins of gospel music at the concert on Wednesday.
Gospel music is so ingrained in pop culture today that gospel choirs are everywhere from the Superbowl and Grammy’s to detergent and car commercials, says Karen Burke, one of Canada’s leading authorities on gospel music’s history and performance practices. Burke, an associate professor in York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, will […]
Trustees in Winnipeg are asking Winnipeg School Division officials to break down 2018-19 suspension data by race, inspired by an eye-opening 2017 study that revealed nearly half of all expelled students in a Toronto school board are black, even though they make up around 11 per cent of the student body.
Black communities across the Western Hemisphere create meaningful livelihoods by forming their own economies, autonomous from the mainstream. In The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets, edited by Social Science Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein, 14 scholars reveal how the region’s history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, as well as […]
A new public lecture series, presented by The Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora at York University in association with The Jamaica 55 Canada Committee, will run at York University on Oct. 6. The inaugural Don Levy Lecture, in celebration of Jamaica 55, will examine ‘The Role of the Diaspora in National Development’ […]