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Written by Jessica Evans, Toronto Metropolitan University; Linda Mussell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa . Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg. Originally published in The Conversation. An inmate can be seen inside a segregation cell at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, … Continued
Written by Catherine Ellis, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali. Originally published in The Conversation. The screen in Piccadilly Circus is lit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne. A platinum jubilee is unprecedented for … Continued
Written by Andrea Riccardo Migone, Ryerson University; Alexander Howlett, Ryerson University. Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck. Originally published in The Conversation. A crew member throws a line ashore as the Royal Canadian Navy’s newest Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship, … Continued
Written by Cheryl Thompson, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP/Noah Berger. Originally published in The Conversation. Black women have been fighting for decades for the right to wear their natural hair. Here Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the premiere of ‘The … Continued
Written by Tanya A Pobuda, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Does this lack of representation matter to board gamers? Board games have been having a bit of a cultural moment. They experienced a resurgence of … Continued
Written by Richard Lachman, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Social media has allowed fake news about the Ukraine invasion to proliferate. As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of … Continued
Written by Craig Jennex, Ryerson University. Photo credit: (Philip Share/Craig Jennex), Author provided (no reuse). Originally published in The Conversation. The dance floor was a place of belonging in the face of homophobic violence, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and moralistic representations of … Continued
Written by Olufunke Oba, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Most youth in a Waterloo region study were found to have never been taught by a Black teacher. The annual Black History month school assemblies is fading … Continued
Written by Gao Yunxiang, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Gordon Parks for the U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information/Wikimedia/Keynote records. Originally published in The Conversation. In 1941, Robeson recorded an album of Chinese fighting and folk songs with activist Liu Liangmo with … Continued
Written by Linda Mussell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Marsha Rampersaud, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Reinvesting some of the $2 billion Ontario is spending could keep more families together. Last spring, the Ontario government committed to … Continued
Written by James Davies, Western University; Edgardo Sepulveda, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer. Originally published in The Conversation. Last May, churches in low income communities across New York offered COVID-19 testing to residents in conjunction with Northwell Health … Continued
