racism
Anti-racism and Equity Team Launched by City of Waterloo
The City of Waterloo is taking steps towards addressing systemic discrimination based on race, identity, gender, sexual orientation...
Black Drones In The Hive Exhibit Explores KW’s Racist History
Award-winning Montreal artist Deanna Bowen weaves ‘a compelling history of race and dispossession’ in the Waterloo Region and...
Let’s Talk About Racism – Petitions to Change Kitchener’s Name
It’s been over 100 years since our city changed its name from Berlin to Kitchener following a referendum...
Black-led Community Organizations Call to Defund WRPS
Since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was murdered by members of the Minnesota...
KW Solidarity March for Black Lives Matter
Thousands gathered on June 3, at 5:00 p.m. for the KW Solidarity March for Black Lives Matter which...
TCE Radio, Episode Two: The Colour Of Community
In this episode host Megan Nourse talks with Zainab Mahdi about Black Lives Matter in WR and Marika Galadza about belonging, race and class. And more.
“We Just Have To Show Them Our Hearts”: Islamophobia in WR
Noor describes November 16 as an unseasonably warm day—a high of 15 degrees Celsius according to Environment Canada—and, pointedly, “the first Monday after Paris.” On that Monday her car windows were rolled down as she sat waiting for the lights to change at the intersection of King and Weber Streets. “When the arrow opened for the cars beside me to go left, I didn’t see the man’s face, I only heard him yell ‘you are a terrorist!’ and go, he was gone,” Noor, who is Syrian, said. “And then the light opened for us to go straight, but I hear a beep! beep! because really I was shocked, and in shock,” she continued, explaining the disorienting moments that followed.