George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke is a poet, playwright and scholar born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

George Elliot Clarke

George Elliot Clarke is a poet, author and Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on African-Canadian history and experiences, poetry, postcolonial studies, and New World Africans. As a seventh-generation African Canadian and descendant of African-American refugees from the War of 1812, he has helped to bring the experiences and histories […]

Gamal Abdel-Shehid

Gamal Abdel-Shehid is an Associate Professor in York University’s Department of Social Sciences. His teaching and research focus on cultural studies, Black diasporic popular culture, and sports and leisure.

Funkè Aladejebi

Funkè Aladejebi is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on twentieth century oral history, Black Canadian women’s history, the history of Canadian education and transnationalism.

Francis Henry

Francis Henry is one of Canada’s leading scholars in the academic study of race, racism, and anti-racism. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at York University.

Francesca Ekwuyasi

Francesca Ekwuyasi is a multidisciplinary artist and novelist from Lagos, Nigeria, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan is a novelist of Ghanaian descent raised in Calgary, Alberta.

Émile Ollivier

Émile Ollivier was a Haitian Canadian novelist and short story writer who was based in Quebec.

El Jones

El Jones is a poet, journalist, activist and educator based in Nova Scotia.

Djanet Sears

Djanet Sears is a playwright, actor and director of Jamaican and Guyanese descent born in England and based in Ontario.