BIPOC
Published Sept. 15, 2023 5:56 a.m. ET People walk the closed off streets at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Ongoing strikes by Hollywood actors and writers have kept discussions about fair compensation and job protection at the forefront of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, […]
Jul 6, 2023 Twenty-two (22) producers have been selected for Access BIPOC Producers – a training and mentorship program presented by the Canada Media Fund (CMF), European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) and the National Screen Institute. First row L-R: Alicia Petrusa, Amanda Roy, Amar Lohana . . .
Note: Whenever you read the terms BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), racialized people, and racially marginalized, I mean them synonymously while understanding the distinctiveness of experiences and respective identities of racially oppressed peoples. Whenever I refer to BIPOC, I refer to us as “we,” because I, the writer, identify as a person of […]
Chanel Briggs feels the multicultural community on P.E.I. is on the “precipice” of something big. She saw it during the protests for justice and racial equality in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd in the U.S., and she sees it every day as more people of colour make P.E.I. their home. Now she wants to capture that momentum. […]
How did the Black Lives Matter movement catalyze Sea Potential? Smith: We were both working as volunteer specialists at EarthCorps. The population we were serving was predominantly white and higher income, and it felt like I was pretending. I felt like I wasn’t serving my community at all, and it wasn’t really aligned with what I […]
When the USA and New Zealand kick-off on Saturday at FedEx Field, home of the Washington Football Team, Carille Guthrie will look on with passionate interest. Though Guthrie is president of a foundation which aims to grow rugby in historically Black colleges and universities around DC, she will not be at the game. Thanks to […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Out of the nearly 7,000 farms in Vermont, only 17 are Black-owned, according to the 2017 U.S. agriculture census. A $2 million fund is seeking to expand access to farm land ownership in Vermont for people who have been historically . . .
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