Black Futures Month: 2021 will be a pivotal year in the fight against anti-Blackness Meet five Black Torontonians doing the heavy lifting to make lasting change By Kelsey Adams Feb 4, 2021 From left to right: Rodney Diverlus, Renée Jagdeo, Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu, Cheyenne Sundance and Paul Taylor Black Futures Month challenges Black people to push for collective liberation. With the pandemic and continued police violence galvanizing more people to call for change, Black Torontonians are seizing the moment to demand a more just future. Black futures are indelibly linked to Black histories. Within the contexts of colonial and imperialist violence, Black people have always looked to the future. This innate impulse to imagine a more just, equitable and free future is what has propelled Black resistance for centuries. We know what hasn’t worked and what isn’t working. Anti-Black racism remains an endemic and systemic impediment to an unshackled reality for Black people everywhere.