Race and Society

Country musician Jarrid Poitras says he hasn't picked up a guitar since an RCMP officer dislocated his shoulder during a late-night highway traffic stop near Prince Albert two weeks ago. He wants to know why the province's police watchdog is not investigating.

The most comprehensive study yet of maternal health in Canada has found that Black Canadians face a much higher risk of serious complications during pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum than white people — underlining the urgent need for better data tracking and tools to eliminate systemic anti-Black racism in our health-care system, researchers and advocates say.

Hamilton councillor candidate Kojo Damptey is speaking out after a white nationalist group targeted him on social media, threatening to deport him. Other candidates including Scarlett Gillespie, Andrea Horwath and Keanin Loomis shared messages of support for Damptey and condemned hate.

A Black woman has been awarded $25,000 for "injury to her dignity, feelings and self-respect" after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal found the Vancouver Police Board discriminated against her during a traffic stop in 2020.

Phil Switalski was shocked to see racist and antisemitic graffiti during his daily dog walk in Steinbach. Also on Tuesday, Steinbach RCMP began investigating a racist election banner put up on a highway overpass north of Ste. Anne.

Just a tenth of the candidates running for town and city council seats in Niagara responded to a survey from the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association, which reached out to every municipal election candidate including school board trustee candidates looking for their views on five key race-related issues.

Crowds gathered in Sipekne'katik on Sunday to remember Destiny Rennie, a 22-year-old Mi'kmaw woman who died of fungal meningitis three years ago. Her family has filed a lawsuit against the Nova Scotia Health Authority, saying her race played a role in the allegedly negligent medical treatment she received.

Pew Research Center reported this year that 37 percent of Black teens aged 13 to 17 surveyed said they use TikTok “almost constantly,” compared with 34 percent of Hispanic teens and 10 percent of White teens. That does not mean Black teens are more likely to engage in “gooning.” It does mean many Black teens are spending substantial time on a platform where trends, language and content can spread quickly.

Genres including Afrobeats, hip-hop and R&B are routinely flagged as "high risk", a report finds.

A Cape Breton man accused of hate crimes for playing racially charged music and yelling racial slurs is scheduled to enter pleas.

A Toronto resident is calling out Earls Financial District, alleging she was left waiting for a table while other customers walked in and were seated ahead of her — and she believes race played a role.

Coco Gauff was targeted online after stopping play during a crucial point in the first set against China’s Sun Xinran.

A former student at Addenbrooke Classical Academy filed a federal lawsuit, alleging school administrators failed to protect him from months of racial harassment that escalated to threatening graffiti naming him and other students of color.

An employee at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is “no longer employed” after the hospital said it conducted an investigation into a recent video circulating online that appears to show a staff member using “racist language toward a fellow passenger on public transit.”

Stanford University is facing criticism after using artificial intelligence to alter a photo of three students in an advertisement.

Howard University associate professor Christine McWhorter is author of the new book “Building Critical Race Media Literacy: Countering the Narrative."

A member of the prominent pro-separation group the Alberta Prosperity Project has “resigned” after he used a racial slur at an event on Thursday where the group presented a draft constitution for an independent Alberta.

Lawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in California

Intermingling between European settlers and Indigenous and Afro-descendant populations was possibly not widespread in Montreal during the 17th and 18th centuries, concludes a study published by a researcher from the Université de Montréal. 

Longstanding racial gaps in US entry-level lawyer employment increased for 2025 graduates, with white law graduates securing jobs at a higher rate than their Black, Hispanic and Asian classmates, new data show.

Artist Deana Lawson uses beauty supply store surveillance images to analyze power and personhood in her exhibition at the Gagosian in New York City

Figures supplied by police forces suggest nearly 150,000 hate crimes were recorded between April 2025 and March 2026

Report from Human Rights Commission was spurred by complaint from Lyle Howe, a Black Halifax defence lawyer who was disbarred in 2017.

A judge in Thunder Bay has ruled that a tracking warrant and a transmission data recorder warrant issued for a suspect in a drug trafficking investigation were tainted by racial profiling and should not have been issued