Media coverage of terrorism and terrorist attacks suffers from systemic bias that negatively impacts marginalized communities and feeds terrorism itself.
Posts tagged as “anti-racism”
The story of systemic Anti-Black Racism in Canada did not begin 5, 10, or even 50 years ago. It began over 100 years ago in Bedford, a community in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here, Black people once unified in a home they called Africville. Africville was the first region in Canada that was once owned by a large population of African-Canadians, and perhaps the last....
Since the murder of George Floyd on May 25th, protests against state sanctioned violence, police brutality and anti-Black racism have taken place in over 58 countries and counting. Canadians in every major city in the country have taken to the streets in protest. This is no longer a period of civil disobedience, but one of revolution.