Black Canadians

Funké Aladejebi discusses education as a tool for Black activism in Canada

By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer On October 22, 2021, Funké Aladejebi gave the lecture “Black Radical Traditions and Educational Encounters in Canada” at the Harbour Event Centre. Her lecture focused on 60s–70s Black educational experiences in Canadian schools and how resistive methods of teaching responded to everyday occurrences of institutionalized racism in Canada.  Aladejebi opened the lecture by pointing to conversations about anti-Black racism and the lack of knowledge about Black Canadian history entering mainstream thought. “It feels like that initial momentum that we started with, that urgency to address anti-Black racism in Canada is waning.” She talked about…

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