Turning The TV Off The US Empire Part 2: The Rise of The Multipolar World
The rise of the multipolar order, coupled with burgeoning resistance movements across the world, will chart a new chapter in the course of modern humanity. Any departure from the current global state of affairs will undoubtedly benefit the masses of the global majority outside the Western world.
Turning The TV Off The US Empire Part 1: A Critical Reflection on The US Election
An assessment of Biden and Trump’s foreign and domestic policies indicate that there isn’t much difference between the two: the interests of Wall Street and the Pentagon have and will continue to remain Supreme.
The Landscape of Independent Film and Political Media
The journey of politically driven independent films reveals the tension between bold storytelling and the systemic constraints of the film industry.
One Africa, Many Pan-Africanisms: An Interview with Doctor Zeyad El Nabolsy
Despite their differences, from the time of independence in the ‘60s, African revolutionary leaders have always called for a unified political and economic continent. In this interview with Prof. Zeyad El Nabolsy (York University), we talk through the historical trajectory of this philosophy, from the continent to the diaspora.
Unnatural Sciences
In a time where fiction threatens reason and misinformation reigns supreme, it may seem unwise to raise criticism against an institution as essential as medicine.
Cadaver Living
That life and death are riddled in every choice we make.
That sometimes we need to choose between resigning ourselves to death by a thousand paper cuts or death beneath a single scalpel.
Beef With Thy Passport to Nowhere
To what degree have they, Africans on the continent or anywhere else in the world, been miseducated, blinded, co-opted around this business of passports, its presumed strength or weakness faced with stringent visa requirements for some or blasé passage at immigration control for others, is always questionable.
In Conversation With Dr Joan Samuels-Dennis
The story is, someone has harmed me, they have done something very, very wrong and in that process, I will have started a war, if not externally with that other person, I will have started a war with myself and that's where guilt and shame and blame has its part in our stories.
Found Nickels
My time in school had always been wasted, like every moment of my life was a penny in a billionaire’s trust fund. Not just my time, but my body too.
Dare To Dream, Dare To Teach
I dreamt of having a classroom of my own one day, teaching real students that I didn’t bribe with a week of chores.
Beep Beep: Get Outta Our Community, and Get Into Our Thoughts A Look Into Prioritizing Anti-Poverty Measures
When we talk about violence in Toronto, the focus tends to be on crime committed by the poor. By the struggling and unwanted parts of the city.
The Publishing Industry Erases Black Voices
The truth is, if we want our stories told, we must create our own spaces to do so.
Tyra Erskine
Tyra Erskine finds herself as one of the many prominent actors in the anti-Black racism movement in Calgary
Uma Samari
“I believe there is a reason that He [God] has made me a Black person. I’d like to believe it is because He loves me the most.”
LOUD
“It's very cool to be Black right now,” Adams says, but only in a specific manner. If an artist isn’t interested in jumping headfirst into mainstream R&B or rap, or trying to sound like a variation of Drake, Daniel Caesar or Tory Lanez, then it becomes much harder to build a fanbase and gain any sort of income in Toronto off of music”.
Black History Month Reading List
As this month comes to an end, we’re celebrating a mashup of literary work that puts Blackness, both past and present, into perspective. We have also taken special interest in including literary works by Black Canadian authors who are creating the context and scholarship to widen the knowledge of erased struggles of Black Canadians both historically and newcomers alike.
Safe Spaces
Imagine if we had enough room for love; if we could meet each other with the same patience we took to love our mothers, our children, our closest friends, our lovers. Imagine a world like that.
96 on Getting Here
When 96 moved back to Toronto, he was uncertain about what was going to happen next. After a decade-long stint in Calgary, he was moving back to the city to reconnect with old friends and finally pursue music in the way that he wanted to. But nothing felt certain.
Jesus is King and the Soundtrack to Commercial Christianity
West’s new brand of Christianity pushes him further into the good-books of the alt-right, and further away from the communities that prop him up.