Black Research Network: 2025-2026 Black Studies Summer Seminar

Events | May 25-29, 2026

2025-2026 Black Studies Summer Seminar

The 2025-2026 Black Studies Summer Seminar, “the next place we go, they will follow: Beyond Digital Capture,” will take place at...

Black Studies UTSC

Network | Researcher Profile

Ahmed Ali Ilmi

Ahmed Ali Ilmi is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Global Development Studies at the University of...

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Black Diaspora Black Studies School System Social Sciences

News | Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis brings scholars, artists and archivists together for a deeper understanding of Black life

Rebuilding the traditional structures of a classroom is at the root of SA Smythe’s teaching philosophy. For Smythe, an assistant professor of...

Black Studies BRN Humanities and the Arts UofT

News | Wednesday, September 11, 2024

For Afua Cooper, unveiling the truth of Canada’s African history isn’t just a curriculum — it’s a purpose

It’s a moment that Afua Cooper still vividly recalls. It was the early 1980s, and Cooper, then newly arrived in...

Black Studies Humanities and the Arts UTSC

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Karina Vernon

Karina Vernon researches and teaches in the area of Canadian literature, with a special focus on black Canadian literature, archives, critical...

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Black Studies Creative Writing Humanities and the Arts Literature

News | Wednesday, October 4, 2023

UTSC’s Afrosonic Innovation Lab provides a thriving space for music of the African diaspora

A growing academic space at U of T Scarborough is offering students a meaningful outlet to engage with music from...

Black Studies BRN Researcher Profile Series Humanities and the Arts Poetry, Essays, and Songs UTSC

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Ann Lopez

Dr. Ann Lopez is a Jamaican-born professor of educational leadership and policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education...

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Black Studies Curriculum, pedagogy, and didactics Decolonization equity Leadership Social Justice Social Science

Professor Ann Lopez and Professor Njoki Wane are co-founders of the Centre for Black Studies in Education (CBSE)

News | Monday, June 19, 2023

The Centre for Black Excellence in Education launches at OISE

On June 9, the Centre for Black Studies in Education (CBSE) at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) officially...

Black Excellence Black Studies Education Social Justice UofT

News | Wednesday, June 14, 2023

How one U of T course helped a new grad find her path in Black Canadian history

Marwa Hussein had to wait until her final year to take the “Black Canadian History” course offered in Black Canadian...

Arts & Science Black Studies Humanities and the Arts UofT

News | Tuesday, June 7, 2022

#BlackonCampus Roots and the Radical Student-Led Organizing of the Black Liberation Collective- University of Toronto

In the spring of 2015, around 500 Black graduate and undergraduate students, staff and faculty came together on a Friday...

African Black Studies Caribbean Education Leadership UofT UTM UTSC