This episode features Robyn Maynard’s keynote talk, Toward 21st Century Black Liberation, from Social Justice Week 2018.

Robyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, a critically-acclaimed national bestseller. Maynard has a long history of involvement in grassroots movements against racial profiling, police violence, detention and deportation.

Building on Policing Black Lives, Robyn Maynard provides an overview of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black lives in Canada. Drawing on examples from Canada’s immigration, child welfare, and criminal justice systems, the event explored the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple Canadian institutions.

It was part of the Mandela ECI Lecture series, a unique series of keynote talks by renowned Black public intellectuals and artists. The series was presented by Social Justice Week in collaboration with TMU’s Office for Equity and Community Inclusion.

Host: Kiké Roach
Editor: Eunice Addo