In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, ‘American Fiction.’
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Clinical psychologist and professor Monnica Williams is on a mission to bring psychedelics to therapists’ offices to help people heal from their racial traumas. To do this, she’s jumping over some big hurdles.
For Mother’s Day, we look at the fastest growing prison population in Canada — racialized women, many of whom are mothers. Experts connect the trend to rising poverty and the attempts to cope with it.
Stories about alternative worlds can be a powerful way of critiquing the problems of our own world.
It has been an uphill battle to make the case for Black studies courses and programs in Canadian universities.
Reparations to African Canadians for enslavement and historical injustices need not be financial payments to every individual African Canadian. Instead funds for specific groups are a viable option.
Rather than helping and providing new unbiased tools for policing, police surveillance technologies tend to be reactionary and biased.
Canadian audiences did not object to Ancestry’s ad which romanticized Canada as “Promised land,” but they should have.
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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Sessional Instructor, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University
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Professor of Black Studies, Dalhousie University
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Ontario Coordinator at Walls to Bridges Program
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Disparities, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Dean (Arts and Humanities), Bucknell University
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Professor, Departments of English Langauge and Literature & Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
