'A specific form of anti-Black racism:' Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery

‘A specific form of anti-Black racism’: Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery

More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country’s history of slavery and its intergenerational harms. Read More

'A specific form of anti-Black racism': Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery

More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery and its intergenerational harms.

"A specific form of anti-Black racism": Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery

Historian Elise Harding-Davis says Canada’s unanimous vote last year to proclaim August 1 as Emancipation Day rings hollow without a federal apology for slavery.

Emancipation Day | Academics Call for Apology for Black Slavery

The unanimous vote in the Canadian Parliament to declare August 1 as Emancipation Day means nothing if the federal government does not offer an apology for slavery, argues historian Elise Harding-Davis.

Academics Call for Apology for Black Slavery

The unanimous vote in the Canadian Parliament to declare August 1 as Emancipation Day means nothing if the federal government does not offer an apology for slavery, argues historian Elise Harding-Davis.

'A specific form of anti-Black racism': Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery

Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery