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Black Lives Matter - Toronto

This factsheet traces the origins, goals and victories of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in Toronto, Canada.

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References

Hudson, S. & Khogali, Y. (2018). "We will Win: Black Lives Matter – Toronto.” In Race and Racialization: Essential Reading, 2nd edition, eds. Tania Das Gapta, Carl E. James, Chris Andersen, Grace-Edward Galabuzi & Roger C. A, Maak. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, pp. 695-713.

Source Authors

Sandra Hudson, Yusra Khogali

Keywords

Active Intervention, Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Racism, Black History, Black Lives Matter, Canada's Colonial History, Colonial Violence, Colonialism, Community Building, Decolonization, Future Possibilities, History of Racism, intersectional-discrimination, Intersectionality, Nation Building Narrative, Ongoing Colonialism, Organized Resistance, Police, Police Violence, Reimagining, Solidarity, State Sanctioned Violence, White Supremacy

Key Figures

Jermaine Carby, Michael Brown, Officer Ryan Reid

Locations

Canada, Toronto, Turtle Island

Themes

Activism, Theory