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Early detection of breast cancer is critical to improving chances of survival. But racial and ethnic minority patients systematically have delayed diagnoses that reduce the benefits of screening.
The Toronto Police Service chief apologized to the public for the findings of an investigation that demonstrated the Toronto police’s excessive use of force on racialized residents.
Discussions of racism in Britain centre around the experiences and traumas of Black people, but rarely on the perpetrators.
We’re launching the third season of Don’t Call Me Resilient, our podcast that takes on systemic racism and the ways it permeates our everyday lives.
Solidarity must never be attempted through the erasure and homogenization of people’s lived experiences.
The Black Lives Matter movement is having a lasting impact on the racial reckoning in the US that was triggered after the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in 2020.
Vaccines and medical treatments can only go so far in an unequal society. Facing the ongoing history of racial discrimination and bias in the US would help end the pandemic.
Black American women have disproportionate HIV infection rates – in part because of systemic and structural racism in the health care system.
The evidence is growing that experiencing both systemic and everyday race-based discrimination may lead some Black Americans to become depressed and think about suicide.
Research found that police officers killed more than 30,000 people from 1980 to 2018 – 17,000 more than official federal data suggests.
We’re launching the second season of Don’t Call Me Resilient, our podcast that takes on systemic racism and the ways it permeates our everyday lives.
Theatre and performing arts practitioners, organizations and educators in Victoria and Regina are partnering to create opportunities for BIPOC artists and cultural administrators.
Being Canada’s next governor general will be Mary Simon’s most challenging diplomatic mission yet.
Medical innovations paired with innovative programs to get them to Black, Indigenous and Hispanic Americans can help close the health inequality gap.
Green spaces can be part of the plan to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19. But city officials and policy-makers must address systemic racism for urban green spaces to benefit public health.
A commitment to eliminating racism must be reflected in accountability mechanisms that focus on the impacts of coordinated and consistent anti-racist action.
Social inequalities worsen storm damage and challenge disaster recovery, increasing class divides over time.
Just as BLM is forcing a reckoning with systemic racism, there is new attention being paid to the origins of the Palestinians’ struggles.
A documentary series aimed to spark national conversation about criminalising coercive control. However, it highlighted power imbalances in conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women.
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Full Professor/CRC in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, C-SET, University of Regina
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
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Adjunct professor, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor at the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor, Augusta University
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Indigenist Health Humanities Academic Director, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Project Advisor, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Communication, University of California, Davis
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Assistant professor, Faculty of Health, York University, York University, Canada
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Manitoba
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Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington