Reading Time: 3 minutes Racism is pointless and will inevitably fail, as it did in baseball. But it is part of our history
Tag: Racism
Biden using COVID-19 to advance radical policies
Reading Time: 3 minutes The pandemic has plunged the West into a state of fear, with more people willing to accept greater government interference
New scholarship encourages law students to champion racial justice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Scotiabank launches nationwide scholarship supporting future lawyers tackling systemic discrimination and creating change
Repeating the cycle of racism through education
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s a gap in the Canadian education system that prevents Black Canadians from being both Black and Canadian
The year the world finally said, ‘Enough is enough!’
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s difficult to call colonization and the theories that perpetuate and justify it to this day anything but the sinful antithesis of love
Twenty stories that defined the University of Alberta in 2020
Reading Time: 7 minutes In a year of unprecedented challenges, the people of the U of A gave us plenty of reasons to expect a brighter future
If a team name is offensive, change it without delay
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why is the Cleveland baseball team waiting until 2022 to make the change? Let the healing begin now
Identity politics is an evil virus spreading across society
Reading Time: 4 minutes This obsession with identity can do nothing good for a society that values equality of treatment of all its people
Charley Pride knocked down country music’s racial barriers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Audiences took a while to warm up to a black country musician. He wasn’t promoted in this fashion and photos didn’t accompany his early singles
Time to come to terms with Canada’s original sin
Reading Time: 3 minutes Separating one racial group of people from the rest of the nation and expecting a good result was madness then and is madness now