Culture
How racism in Ontario schools today is connected to a history of segregation
By Funké Aladejebi
Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School first opened in 2009 after years of advocacy and then months of heated public debates and... Read More
The role of cricket in an inclusive city
By Perry King
Cricket has a rich cultural history in Toronto. The sport is closely tied to Black history, following the Black Diaspora throughout... Read More
EXCERPT FROM ‘UNCLE’: Aunt Jemima in Chicago
By Cheryl Thompson
Excerpted with permission from Uncle: Race, Nostalgia and the Politics of Loyalty, published this month by Coach House Books... Read More
The ‘bashment’ parties of my childhood are Black history
By Cheryl Thompson
In 2002, reggae artist Sean Paul shot the video for his song ‘Get Busy/Like Glue,’ in Vaughan. Directed by Toronto’s own Director X... Read More
‘Out of this world’ sculptures land in midtown
By Sarah Ratzlaff
In Toronto, there are a number of public artworks that re-imagine the human subject. I’m thinking, for example, of Hadley+ Maxwell’s... Read More
THOMPSON: What if the Caribana Carnival went back to its roots?
By Cheryl Thompson
“The watching Torontonians didn’t cheer, didn’t wave,” reported the Toronto Daily Star on August 5, 1967, as “Caribana” left Varsity... Read More
The connections between public art and activism
By Sarah Ratzlaff
In this moment of social and political upheaval, as protesters demand racial justice in response to police brutality and systemic... Read More
If Black lives truly matter in Canada, an apology for slavery is only a first step
By Natasha Henry
silNatasha Henry is a 2018 Vanier Scholar completing a PhD in History at York University on the enslavement of Africans in early... Read More
Tales from The Concert Hall at the Masonic Temple
By Jonny Dovercourt
“You need to get there by 5. Or 4, if you can.” This advice might have come from someone’s older brother, or more likely someone’s... Read More
ANY NIGHT OF THE WEEK: With Broken Social Scene, Cause = Time
By Jonny Dovercourt
Spacing is teaming up with Coach House Books and Jonny Dovercourt to bring you partial and complete chapter excerpts from the new book... Read More