/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3104/all en /newsroom/n-keita-christophe Fri, 23 Sep 2022 04:23:53 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288387 at /newsroom /newsroom/jan-doering Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:11:23 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 262357 at /newsroom /newsroom/wendell-nii-laryea-adjetey Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:55:11 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 261962 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-ex-cop-guilty-murder-and-manslaughter-death-george-floyd-330575 <p>A former Minneapolis police officer was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man's neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. (<a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/ex-cop-derek-chauvin-guilty-of-murder-and-manslaughter-in-death-of-george-floyd-1.5394195" target="_blank">CTV News</a>)</p> <p>Here are some experts from 黑料不打烊 University that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:24:57 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 260936 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-black-history-month-february-2021-328196 <p>During Black History Month, Canadians celebrate the many achievements and contributions of Black Canadians who, throughout history, have done so much to make Canada the culturally diverse, compassionate, and prosperous nation it is today. (<a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/about.html">Government of Canada</a>)</p> <p>Here are some experts from 黑料不打烊 University that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:28:41 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 256580 at /newsroom /newsroom/debra-thompson Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:56:05 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 256011 at /newsroom /newsroom/alicia-boatswain-kyte Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:51:31 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 253470 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-joyce-echaquans-death-racism-healthcare-system-325109 <p>Quebec鈥檚 coroner鈥檚 office will be looking into the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from the Atikamekw Nation of Manawan and a mother of seven children, who passed away amid troubling circumstances in a Joliette hospital on Monday, September 28. Before her death, Echaquan took a cellphone video from her hospital bed and livestreamed it on Facebook. Near the end of the video, which lasts around seven minutes, hospital personnel enter the room. The staff members can be heard insulting Echaquan and making derogatory comments about her.</p> Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:46:06 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 241906 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-george-floyds-death-racism-and-police-brutality-322552 <p>Demonstrators gathered to denounce racist violence and police impunity both in the U.S. and in Montreal. The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked nightly protests in major U.S. cities. The Montreal rally was a solidarity gathering with American anti-racism activists, but organizers say it is also an opportunity to express their own anger at the treatment of marginalized people in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/george-floyd-montreal-police-racism-protest-1.5592643">CBC News</a>)</p> Tue, 02 Jun 2020 17:01:48 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 214244 at /newsroom /newsroom/article/around-campus/mcgill-lecturer-open-his-class-public-talk-justice-and-race-saskatchewan <p><span>The聽</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Colten_Boushie">death of Colten Boushie in Saskatchewan and Gerald Stanley acquittal</a><span>聽sparked a national discussion on the Canadian justice system and anti-indigenous racism in Canada.</span></p> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:15:01 +0000 Newsroom 32958 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/black-history-month-241341 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:36:42 +0000 raphael.larocque-cyr@mcgill.ca 21968 at /newsroom