Esi Edugyan: For true systemic shifts to occur, everyone has to recognize that the whole underlying structure is so irreparably broken that no one can afford to live like this anymore
Tag Archives: Letters to America
‘Black women: It’s time society fights for our lives, too’
Eternity Martis: Black women, who experience ‘misogynoir,’ a mix of misogyny and racism, are also aggressively punished by police
The cameras on your phones make Black people invisible
Ian Williams: ‘Dear cell phone companies,’ There are software issues with your phones that I won’t get into. My date and time function is frozen in the 18th century.
Canada’s own legacy of racist oppression
Andray Domise: ‘To my brothers and sisters in America,’ you may be unaware that Canada aligned itself against your lives when it mattered
We must work toward an abolitionist future for our world
Rinaldo Walcott: There has been something animated by the death of George Floyd that is deeply familiar and that calls out for something more—something beyond mere redress, arrest and conviction
We must defund the police. It is the only option.
Sandy Hudson: ‘Dear white people,’ through your inaction, you show us your inherent belief system—a Black life lived with dignity is unreasonable, and a liberated Black life is impossible.
Letters to America from Black Canadians
Eight writers pen open letters to America addressing the task of confronting racism that—deny it as some Canadians might—persists in their own country
Vote that Willy Lump Lump out of the White House
Seventeen years after his trailblazing father’s death, author Lawrence Hill pleads for guidance as anti-Black violence engulfs the U.S.—but runs rampant in Canada, too
A letter to the Canada-U.S. border: They said it would be different on this side.
Desmond Cole: Things are different, but not enough to save us. And once we cross over you, we must be quiet, like grateful and humbled guests in a museum.
Tear gas, outrage, solidarity: Scenes from the protests against racism across the U.S.
Photographers on the ground during protests and riots across the U.S. capture images of pain, resilience and the aftermath of police brutality