Learn more about anti-Black racism and systemic racism in the areas of education, unemployment and housing, child and family health and welfare, and policing and justice in Ontario, Canada and internationally.
Anti-Black Racism Analysis Tool for a Radically Equitable COVID-19 Response
A new online tool is available to help those with a police record to better navigate the job-seeking process. Learn how to proactively and transparently disclose a police record to a potential employer.
Call It Out
A 30-minute interactive e-course that offers a foundation for learning about race, racial discrimination and human rights protections under Ontario’s Human Rights Code. The course offers a historical overview of racism and racial discrimination, explains what “race,” “racism” and “racial discrimination” mean, and provides approaches to preventing and addressing racial discrimination. Note: Call It Out is designed for use on desktops, laptops and tablets in landscape orientation.
Campaigns & Initiatives
International Decade for People of African Descent (2015 to 2024)
The modern and simple design of the International Decade for People of African Descent logo anchors Afro-descendants in the now and the future and connotes advancement now and in the years to come. It implies the inclusion of all people of African descent into one group, who share a common history and heritage. The abstract form of a spiral coming off and spreading out from Africa (as the ‘origin’) in its center represents simultaneously the past, present and future of people of African descent. The spiral itself symbolizes the globe and represents migration and advancement/progress.
3D TORONTO Sign
In September 2020, a new 3D TORONTO Sign was installed at Nathan Phillips Square and a new vinyl wrap honouring the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent. The vinyl wrap, which includes artwork titled Patterns of the People, was designed by Toronto artist Danilo Deluxo McCallum.
Black Mental Health Day
If you missed the confronting racism and mental health panel discussion on Black Mental Health Day, you can stream it on Facebook. Watch it now!
The Ontario Human Rights Commission’s (OHRC) Policy and guidelines on racism and racial discrimination contain the OHRC’s position on racism, racial discrimination and racial harassment, at the time of publication. It deals with issues that fall within the OHRC’s jurisdiction. In the policy, discrimination and harassment due to race are analyzed. The policy highlights some of the broader issues of racism to create an appropriate context. The policy is bounded by the provisions of the Ontario Human Rights Code and Canada’s legal framework for analyzing discrimination.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Under Suspicion: Research and consultation report on racial profiling in Ontario is the result of a year-long consultation and a review of Canadian case law. It provides detailed policy guidance on the different forms of racial profiling occurring in Ontario. The aim of this report is to give specific information to organizations, individuals and communities on how to identify, address and prevent racial profiling.
Every Woman Matters: A Report on Accessing Primary Health Care for Black Women and Women of Colour in Ontario (April 2011). The report provides highlights from the pilot program, A Collaborative Process to Achieve Access to Primary Health Care for Black Women and Women of Colour (hereafter referred to as the Access Study). The study examined the disparities disproportionately affecting Black Women and Women of Colour who seek access to primary healthcare. The purpose of this report is to assist community members, researchers and health service providers (HSPs) working to remove barriers and increase access to equitable, inclusive, primary healthcare in Ontario that addresses the challenges facing Black Women and Women of Colour.
Prof. Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Deputation to the OAS Rapporteur on People of African Descent and Against Racial Discrimination, September 8, 2014 [Deputations on Poverty, Unemployment and Housing, Deputations on Migrant Workers].