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For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see  . To be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be perceived as an ephemeral anachronism — at best understood in relation to the groups of refugees moving through or the odd highly-skilled immigrant professional who, for some reason, decided to stay. At worst, to be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be a punchline, a joke.  Any other history of Blackness in the Prairies doesn't compute, although there are two centuries of it that reflect different waves of migrations and movements. This history has only very...

View Comments Rev. Michael Graham, S.J., was less than a year into his presidency at Xavier University when Timothy Thomas was killed by Cincinnati police. He remembers it was the week of Easter break when the city erupted with the unrest of 2001.   When students returned to campus, the university organized an event in response to Thomas' death, in the board room across from his office. It was packed with people, he said, for a “searing” couple of hours. He remembers walking out of the room, reflecting: “What the heck was that?”  And then, “In light of this, what should...

Commentators have pointed to a resistance to change among officers and an inability to garner community buy-in as reasons for the slowdown in progress in Baltimore. Part of the problem, as seen with Baltimore, is that federal intervention does not appear to guarantee lasting change. Research shows that Department of Justice regulations aimed at reform only slightly reduce police misconduct. There is also no evidence that national efforts targeting the use of force alone mitigate police killings. Community-led reform One beacon of hope is the Cincinnati Police Department. Twenty years ago, res...

Success stories of U.S. cities that have reformed their police suggest community, officer buy-in might be key | Opinion Today 8:45 AM Facebook Share The guilty verdicts delivered against Derek Chauvin on April 20, 2021, represented a landmark moment – but courtroom justice cannot deliver the sweeping changes most Americans feel are needed to improve policing in the U.S. As America continues to grapple with racism and police killings, federal action over police reform has stalled in Congress. But at the state level there is movement and steps toward reform are underway in many U.S. cities,...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. What Defunding the Police Could Look Like In Practice We’ve got to start somewhere.   You can hear people talking about defunding the police or abolishing the police or reforming the police, but the real-world implications of these strategies are often hidden. What does it really mean to defund the police? Part of the problem is that the public often has a very hazy picture of what t...