Rinaldo Walcott – The Conversation

A woman waits for a streetcar in Toronto on April 16, 2020. The many Black people working in essential jobs do not have the luxury of staying home during the pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

April 20, 2020

Coronavirus discriminates against Black lives through surveillance, policing and the absence of health data

Beverly Bain, University of Toronto; OmiSoore Dryden, Dalhousie University, and Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto

Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.

People from the Black Lives Matter lead the annual Pride Parade in Toronto on Sunday, July 3, 2016. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Blinch)

June 28, 2017

Black Lives Matter, police and Pride: Toronto activists spark a movement

Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto

It took only 30 minutes to plunge Toronto’s queer community into civil war. All across North America, Pride parades are debating police brutality.

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