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Lenya Wilks says she felt like the "only Black person in Surrey" when she first moved to the city east of Vancouver last year.

Opposition party Québec solidaire and a Black community group in Montreal are calling on the provincial government to introduce a policy governing how police interact with young, racialized people.

A new tool that measures the environmental quality of any urban street in Canada — and maps it out in colour — illustrates vividly the many neighbourhoods in the country that have poor environment scores, neighbourhoods that are often home to racialized communities.

The mammoth Covanta waste incinerators in Newark and Camden illustrate the challenges ahead for the state's efforts to achieve environmental justice.

Americans venting their grief and anger at the death of George Floyd in police custody are being confronted nightly with tear gas, rubber bullets and truncheon-wielding, armour-clad riot police — the merciless approach they set out to protest in the first place.

Justin Trudeau acknowledged his own past history of unconscious racism during a celebration on Monday, February 24, 2020, of Black History Month.

For years, members of Montreal's black community have told stories about the discrimination they've allegedly suffered at the hands of the city police: A black lawyer in a BMW, repeatedly pulled over. A man checking his cell phone on the street, questioned and eventually arrested. Seemingly routine police interventions that escalate to violence and even death.

Expanding opportunities for Toronto's youth was the focus of a meeting between prominent black business leaders and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on on Saturday, April 7, 2019.

A woman who helped build the black civil rights movement in Nova Scotia is being remembered as the behind-the-scenes power in a partnership that often featured her husband as the charismatic and public voice.

The plan to legalize marijuana should recognize that the black community has been overly criminalized for using the drug, says a Liberal MP.

The RCMP says there will be no formal apology to Halifax's Black communities for its heavy use of street checks, despite the Halifax regional police having done so almost two years ago.