Tag Archives: anti-Black racism

Radio — Anti-Black city-building and Black community resistance in Halifax

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Scott

LaMeia Reddick is a community worker and consultant in Halifax. Ted Rutland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal and the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in … Continue reading →

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Radio — Demanding justice for Black cleaning workers in Halifax

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Scott

Taylor MacLean is a cleaning worker who lives in Halifax. Darius Mirshahi is an organizer with SEIU Local 2 in the same city, in particular with their Justice for Janitors campaign. Scott Neigh interviews them about anti-Black racism in the … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting the school-to-prison pipeline in Toronto

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Scott

Alison Fisher is a teacher in the Toronto District School Board. Melanie Carrington is a social worker and the mother of a son who is currently in elementary school in Toronto. Both are also graduate students, as well as members … Continue reading →

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Radio — Building unapologetically Black spaces in Winnipeg

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Alexa Potashnik. She is the founder of Black Space Winnipeg, a group that works to create spaces that are unapologetically pro-Black and Afrocentric, while also acting in solidarity … Continue reading →

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Radio — Black youth opposing gentrification and empowering community

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/310150229-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-203-feb-152017-black-youth-opposing-gentrification-and-empowering-community.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Kyturea Jones, Payton Ashe, and Donntayia Jones. They are members of the North End Community Action Committee, a Black youth-led community group in Halifax’s North End that … Continue reading →

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Radio — A community challenging racial profiling in stores

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309905256-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-162-apr-202016-a-community-challenging-racial-profiling-in-stores.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Ann Divine and Pastor Lennett Anderson about the racial profiling that Black people and other racialized people often experience in stores — both in general, and about the … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting anti-Black racism in Canada: Past, present, future

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Akua Benjamin and Rinaldo Walcott. They are prominent activists and scholars, and founders of the Anti-Black Racism Network in Toronto. Today’s guests point to a consistent pattern over the … Continue reading →

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