Desmond Cole is a Toronto-based journalist and activist, and one of the most well known voices in Canada on anti-Black racism. In 2015, Desmond wrote a cover story for Toronto Life magazine called The...Show More
The struggle for racial justice is far from over. Inequality is built on many aspects ingrained in our society—history, law and culture. How do we confront this inequality embedded in American life? H...Show More
This is an episode that may touch some nerves but is about elevation. In a world where it seems like daily, many white women are exercising their privilege in potentially harmful ways to others it’s t...Show More
How do harmful stereotypical ideologies of Black communities’ lead to discriminatory practices in the workplace? In the third episode of Decoding Black, Dr. Christopher Stuart Taylor and Letecia Rose ...Show More
The images of police killing black men or assaulting protesters are horrifying and disgusting, but they are just the most visible tip of an ugly, ugly iceberg. Before we talk about how far we'll reall...Show More
Many, if not most, white people don't think of themselves as racialized. Race, we might tell ourselves, is an issue for people who have different skin colors than ours: black people, Hispanic people, ...Show More
It’s easy to think of racism as a virus that lives in your head. But my guest today makes a compelling case that it also lives, in very profound and often unseen ways, in your body. Resmaa Menakem is ...Show More
What can you, as an individual, do to help break the cycles of rage, pain, fear, and violence that continue to grip America - and many other parts of the world - relating to the issue of race? Even th...Show More
In this episode, we go there. All the way there. All those horrifying little thoughts that white people might have - eg: Have you ever felt superior to, or suspicious of, black people? - let's drag th...Show More