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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 realit ....
Cheyenne Sundance, urban farmer and founder of Sundance Harvest Cheyenne Sundance, urban farmer and founder of Sundance Harvest Black Futures Month: Food justice advocate is teaching a new generation to farm all year By Kelsey Adams Feb 4, 2021 Sundance Harvest is an urban farm near Downsview Park, with an emphasis on food justice. At the helm is Cheyenne Sundance, a 23-year-old farmer who empowers other youth to start their own food and land sovereignty movements. Following in the tradition of countless Black women like civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, Sundance prioritizes putting agency back into the hands of the most marginalized and providing them the necessary tools to feed themselves. ....
NOW Magazine Paul Taylor, executive director of FoodShare Toronto Black Futures Month: Toronto needs to do more than charity to end food insecurity By Kelsey Adams Feb 4, 2021 Paul Taylor is a man about town, embedded within many social justice communities but primarily focused on food security. As executive director of FoodShare, he leads city-wide initiatives that provide food insecure people with fresh produce, partner with school student nutrition programs and advocate for the right to food. Taylor is thinking about the immediate future following the fallout from the pandemic and he hopes we’ll see the conversation move beyond food banks to long-term policy change addressing human rights inequities. ....