Racial equity in Canadian education remains elusive. Despite Canada's status as a
multicultural nation, many minority students continue to be marginalised. In this article, we …

This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of high school students
from a diverse, low-income urban community in Toronto, Canada. Findings revealed a …

This report is the product of many productive discussions within the Urban Youth Working
Group of the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership (NCRP) from November 2014 …

The systematic brutalization of Black people has persisted since colonization, but police
murder, global anti-racism protests, and a pandemic that has disproportionately impacted …

Informed by Galtung (1969), Anderson (2012) and Wacquant (2001), this paper argues that
a lifetime of spiralling and everyday state structural violence and overtly racist criminal …

As a cultural phenomenon, Hip-Hop is a complex and contested terrain. Historically rooted
in Black and Latino youth subcultures of New York City, Hip-Hop emerged as a form of …

Abstract Doing Right Together for Black Youth summarizes what was learned from over
1,500 community members who answered the call from the Ministry of Children and Youth …

Raised in Toronto's Regent Park by a single mother and grandmother in the 1970s and
1980s, I lived a childhood marked by a seemingly contradictory intersection of belonging …

In 2008, fully armed and uniformed police officers were deployed to thirty public high
schools in Toronto to patrol the hallways on a full-time basis. The permanent assignment of …

Students who have been labeled as having “behaviour problems” in the school system have
some of the worst academic and social outcomes of any student group. In most Canadian …