BLAC STATEMENTS

An uprising is taking place in Canada and throughout the world. The voices of Black, Indigenous and racialized groups are being raised and joined in unison by the community at large. We are demanding transformative change. We are demanding an equitable Canadian...

Over the past weeks, Canadians have witnessed what members of the Black community have experienced for generations: the horrific mistreatment of Black people by the police. Our communities have long been hyper-surveilled and over policed; our minds and bodies have...

BLAC’s work over the past year has confirmed for us that educational institutions continue to be spaces for the perpetuation of horrendous anti-Black racism. Like others in our community who have worked on these issues for years, we also understand that reports,...

BLAC calls on provincial and municipal governments to be proactive during this challenging time and commit to ensuring that the emergency measures are not misused and/or applied in a discriminatory manner. We strongly urge all levels of government to ensure that any...

BLAC is deeply concerned about the ongoing anti-Black racism1 and racial profiling occurring on the University of Windsor campus and in the wider community. Since BLAC opened its doors to the public in March of 2019, we have become acutely aware, through work with our...

The Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the laws of Ontario to combat individual and systemic anti-Black racism by providing legal services to members of Ontario’s diverse Black communities. We are writing this Open...