Following the review of the Peel District School Board, it's directives, and the report on the progress of implementation, we know we must respond to the call to action. We need to seek to understand who we are as leaders, reflecting on how our power, privilege. As well we need to reflect on how our colonial systems that include the laws, policies and practices that govern education create systemic barriers and obstacles for our BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People Of Colour) students and their families. We need to seek to decolonize our system by better understanding how racism (properly defined), White supremacy, (properly understood), and our personal lens (properly examined), which comes from our own world view, which can contribute to reproducing these systems of inequity based on our implicit and explicit bias, power and privilege. This page helps us become rooted and why we have this call to action.
Host Asha Tomlinson speaks with Desmond Cole, the author of The Skin We're In, leaders of BLM Canada, the voices of Black youth, Author Lawerence Hill from the historic novel The Book of Negros and members of from the cast of the mini-series the Book of Negros.
In this special edition of Global News’ “Living in Colour,” hosted Farah Nasser, we take an in-depth look at the relationship between the police and Black communities, how anti-Black racism can affect mental health, the history of racism in Canada, as well as messages of the change Black Canadian figures and leaders in this country hope to see.
Review of the Peel District School Board
Final Report - Investigation of the Peel District School Board
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