Roxana Ngis an educator and scholar who has been involved in anti-racist feminism since the mid-1970s, shortly after she immigrated to Canada. She established “immigrant women” as a field of study in the 1970s, when they were an invisible group in Canadian society. She was one of the organizers of the immigrant women’s movement in…
Karl Flecker is the National Director, Anti-Racism for the Human Rights Department of the Canadian Labour Congress. Karl works for social justice, equity and fights to eliminate racism. When his two kids were young and he returned home, often tainted with tear gas and scuffed from ‘dialogue with the authorities’ from various protests, mass mobilizations and related trouble…
Grace-Edward Galabuzi is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at Ryerson University. He is also a research associate at the Centre for Social Justice in Toronto. He is the author of “Canada’s Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in…
Sunera Thobani is Associate Professor at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia. Since her appointment at UBC, Dr. Thobani has been committed to using an interdisciplinary approach in her teaching and research, and to maintaining her involvement in community and social justice activities. Dr. Thobani’s academic publications include…
Mary Ann Shadd (1823-1893) was a nineteenth-century educator, integrationist, suffragist and abolitionist. ary is best known as the first black woman editor of a newspaper in North America. Mary opened the first integrated school in Canada and became the first female black lawyer in the United States. An advocate for the social and political integration of…
