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Anthony Morgan
Anthony N. Morgan is a Toronto-based human rights lawyer, policy consultant and community educator.
Variations on a theme: Twenty years of anti-terror measures in an already terrorized community
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The history and ongoing legacy of slavery shouldn’t be seen in contrast to the two decades of anti-terror. Rather, we should view the post-9/11 era as a permutation and extension of that history and legacy.
Oppression will try to steal your ability to dream. Don’t let it.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately high impact on Black communities. It’s exceptionally difficult to produce a vision of freedom in such rough times. But we must keep freedom dreaming.
Anti-Black racism in Canada’s food sector
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Black food is inextricably linked to Black freedom.
Nothing about us without us
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After a year of seeing the racially-lopsided impacts of the pandemic in Canada I think that the framework I proposed in my October 2019 TEDxToronto talk is ripe for reconsideration.
Black life and the myth of Sisyphus
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The meaning of the third of November to the Negro
Photo credit: Lorie Shall, Flickr Creative Commons I started writing this column on September 18 as my social media feed filled with posts about National…
A litany of reports, but little accountability for police violence against Black Canadians
When it comes to anti-Black racism in Canadian policing, we don’t have an information gap, we have a police accountability gap. I’m reminded of this…
To make Black lives matter, make Black jobs matter too
The killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, all by current or former police officers, triggered a second tidal wave of the Black…
The prison as petri dish
Informed by his 27 years in prison, the political organizer, lawyer and late president of South Africa Nelson Mandela is known to have said: “No…
Reflections on my big Obama moment
In January, I joined more than 6,000 people at the Toronto Convention Centre to hear former U.S. president Barack Obama speak about “the future of…
What will we do with this decade?
“Papa, you had a whole decade and this is all you did with it?”
The Great Canadian Blackface Debate
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