Poetic JuXtice: Resilience By: Kay Tracey I am not property. I have autonomy. I am not smart for a Black girl. I am just smart. I am not a slave. Because I was born free My ancestors ran away, so I could be set free. While your life is filled with opportunities, emancipation, deregulation, and […]
As African scholars and academics, we are deeply concerned with the crisis in Sudan. The armed conflict between the army and the state sponsored paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces continues to threaten the civilian population and the democratization process in the country. We are extremely saddened by the number of civilian causalities […]
Dear colleagues and friends, From Saturday, May 27 to Friday, June 2, York University will be hosting Congress 2023—the largest gathering of academics, educators, and policy makers in Canada—to reflect on the theme, “Reckonings and Re-Imaginings.” We are extending a special invitation to community members who may not have attended Congress before to participate this […]
Today, March 21th, the HTI marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination / Ce 21 mars, le HTI marque la journée internationale pour l'élimination de la discrimination raciale. Please join our Graduates Students' Caucus Conversation on how to resist racial discrimination at the University Institution on March 28th, 2023 on Zoom from […]
Written by Dr. Patricia Elaine Perkins March 13, 2023 Climate justice is a central priority of the HTI, which “focuses on the struggles in current lives of African peoples and diasporic communities to achieve social justice and covers contemporary forms of exploitation.” Africans, who make up about 17% of the global population, have contributed only […]
Dr. Sylvia Bawa & Chidinma Umahi Odi Nwankwo Sponsored by: LAPS, The Harriet Tubman Institute -York University, Canada and the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD UBIDS), Ghana. The African feminism(s) and its relevance today in Northern Ghana Workshop is a sponsored event funded by the York University LAPS and awarded to Prof. […]
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022 Time: 1:00PM-2:30PM EST Location: Zoom Register in advance for this meeting:https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcuirqD4rH9bhPyaz5cc-uLyhAHs8nkAt Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad Abstract: Underground Railroad scholarship has focused almost exclusively on interior overland routes used to escape enslavement in the Antebellum South. Largely overlooked, however, is the great multitude of enslaved persons […]
Thursday - 27 October 2022 05:30PM (EST), Zoom Registration Speaker: Lorenzo Serravalle, M.A. student in Anthropology at YorkU Biography: M.A. student at York University in the Social Anthropology program. During his undergraduate career, he assisted Dr. Annie Bunting with her research on forced marriage in conflict situations in various African countries by producing knowledge mobilization […]
Date: Thursday October 27, 2022 Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm EST Location: Virtual Register in advance for this meeting:https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEoc--grzosHdHojHn_B84zxOTpY7YjmwgZ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The Necessity of Black Educational Space Abstract: Research suggests that for Black students in K-12, Black-led educational spaces equip them with education to succeed in […]