We at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) are committed to addressing anti-Black racism and to facilitating an EUC culture and practice fully attentive to equity, diversity, and inclusivity. Our approach is meant to be restorative, hopeful, and tangible in pursuit of systemic change. We endorse the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black […]
Spurred by the death of George Floyd, 91亚色 alumna, award-winning placemaker and author聽Jay Pitter聽brings her work in urban planning policy and anti-Black racism to the University to create a new resource 鈥撀燛ngaging Black People and Power. This powerful resource, developed in a Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) graduate-level urban planning course of […]
by Joseph Mensah Abstract: Blacks are the primary scapegoats for the maladies of the world. This might sound melodramatic to those who are privileged enough to steer clear of this reality. The piece does not offer a definitive answer to the tripartite riddle of why Blacks are dying more than the rest, why they are […]
Disability organizations in general 鈥渄on鈥檛 talk about race, and specifically racism and anti-Black racism,鈥 says Sadora Asefaw, who studied the experiences of Black families raising children with developmental disabilities for a master鈥檚 degree in environmental studies from 91亚色, and is now working on an independent digital storytelling project about how Black families and families […]