BLAC

03/23/2026

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.

03/23/2026

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.

03/19/2026

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.

03/01/2026

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

02/09/2026

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.

02/03/2026

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.

02/02/2026

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. 🖤

02/01/2026

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Join the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) for a Black History Month mini-symposium exploring Black life and belonging in Canada

02/01/2026

This month, we honour the legacy, resilience, and contributions of Black communities past, present, and future.

At BLAC, we continue this work through advocacy, legal support, and the pursuit of justice.

Join us as we reflect, learn, and celebrate.

01/30/2026

01/21/2026

BLAC x Inclusion Canada (funded by the Government of Canada) is launching a Youth Employment Training Program for Black youth with an intellectual disability or on the autism spectrum.