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Statement by The Black Legal Action Centre on Emancipation Day

The Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) was created to challenge and eradicate individual and systemic anti-Black racism. BLAC, and all those who we work with and learn from, have much work to do to make this vision a reality.

Today, on Emancipation Day, we are especially cognizant of the work that remains to be done.

While strides have no doubt been made, BLAC recognizes that the seemingly unyielding legacy of slavery – that existed in Ontarioi – is alive and well. What is clear to us at BLAC is that the stereotypes intricately linked to our dehumanization as Black people endure. How else does a person treat another human being as property, if not to negate their humanity?

 

Please view the full statement by clicking the link below.

The Black Legal Action Centre

Established in 2017, the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) is an independent not-for-profit community legal clinic that combats individual and systemic anti-Black racism by providing free legal services, conducting research, developing public legal education materials, and engaging in test case litigation and law reform.