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The Black Circle of Care is a trauma-informed initiative supporting Black individuals and communities impacted by violence, harm, and systemic barriers.

We’re creating space for healing, conversation, and culturally affirming support.

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Racial discrimination should not exist.

And yet, it continues to shape lived experiences in ways that are both visible and unseen.

In recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we are reminded that the work toward equity, dignity, and justice is ongoing.

This past Saturday, BLAC attended the B’Well Clinic & Wellness Event in Rexdale ; a space grounded in health, education, and community support for Black men.

Alongside the Black Action Defence Committee (BADC), we connected with community members and shared resources, while also introducing our joint initiative — The Black Circle of Care.

This initiative is rooted in trauma-informed support for Black victims/survivors of crime, creating pathways to healing through culturally relevant care, peer support, and community connection.

Thank you to all the volunteers and members from BLAC and BADC who helped make the day meaningful.

This is what building community looks like. More to come.

On March 26, 2026, join us for our Black Out Hate Webinar Series as we create space for healing, reflection, and action in response to anti-Black hate.

Closing the month with reflection, clarity, and continued commitment. 🖤

200 Years Didn't Wipe Our Memory

Many people frame racial injustice as a historical grievance; something distant, resolved, or no longer relevant. But that misunderstands how social harm operates.
When people refer to “200 years ago,” they are often pointing to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: a period when modern Canadian laws and institutions were being formed, and access to land, work, housing, and mobility was structured unevenly across communities.
Racial inequity was never only about personal prejudice. It was shaped through law, policy, and economic decisions that determined who could accumulate property, access opportunity, and pass stability across generations. In Canada, these dynamics did not always take the same form as elsewhere, but they nonetheless structured deferential outcomes.
When the formal rules changed, the effects did not disappear. Advantages and disadvantages accumulate. Communities inherit both.
So, when we say, “it’s not 200 years ago,” we are right about time but wrong about cause. Present inequities are not disconnected from history; they are shaped by it.
The question is not whether injustice is old. The question is whether it was ever repaired.

Black history cannot be separated from legal history.
Every story of migration, resistance, work, and community is also a story about law and public institutions.
Black History Month invites us to examine how legal systems have shaped belonging in Canada and how Black communities have worked to change them.
Honouring Black history means understanding the role of law in both harm and progress.

Black History Month is often treated as a reflection on distant history. But many of the conditions shaping Black life today are not relics of the past; they are the afterlives of law and policy that were never fully repaired.
Trauma does not disappear with time. It is carried through families and institutions, just as wealth and advantage are. Where some families were enabled to pass down property and security, many Black families were forced to pass down strategies for survival within unequal systems. This is not culture; it is adaptation to structure.

Inequity in housing, education, and employment did not simply end; it evolved into neutral-sounding policies that continue to produce unequal outcomes while avoiding explicit reference to race. Anti-racism scholarship teaches us that inequality is sustained less by individual bias and more by systems that deny their own racial impact.

This Black History Month, we are focusing on both what was endured and what is being built: on belonging with power, on legal recognition and accountability, and on Black futures shaped by dignity, creativity, and collective action.

Black history is not only something we remember. It is something we are still transforming. 🖤

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Living in Colour: Black Life, Law and Belonging in Canada Join the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) for a Black History Month mini-symposium exploring Black life and belonging in Canada