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Hundreds gather for Black Lives Matter vigil in Skeleton Park

Written on June 3, 2020. Posted in News.

Hundreds gathered in Skeleton Park on Tuesday evening to mourn lives lost to police brutality. The Black Luck Collective (BLC), a community group for Black Kingstonians, organized the vigil to support the Black Lives Matter movement and take up physical space to grieve for victims of racialized...

Medicine Admission Award for Black Canadians goes unawarded

Written on February 7, 2020. Posted in News.

Last spring, Queen’s pledged to award incoming Black medical students $50,000 in entrance scholarships. The scholarship, which was slated to start this year, has gone unawarded so far. After being made aware of a 1918 ban on Black students enrolling at Queen’s medical school, the University established...

Queen’s asks: Who gets to be a doctor?

Written on September 27, 2019. Posted in News.

This October, 107 first-year medical students will spend three hours learning about the racist history of Queen’s School of Medicine. ‘Who gets to be a doctor?’ is a module the Queen’s School of Medicine is integrating into one of its required first-year courses, Introduction to Professional Roles. After...

Operation Black Vote comes to Queen’s ahead of federal election

Written on September 20, 2019. Posted in News.

The African Caribbean Students’ Association (ACSA) at Queen’s was the first university-organization in Canada to co-host Operation Black Vote. On Sept. 18, Operation Black Vote (OBV) visited campus to discuss the importance of diversity in politics and the impact of voting. The organization’s aim...

‘It’s still a very sad and painful story for the family’

Written on July 29, 2019. Posted in News.

Dr. Maria Bartholomew, a practicing gastroenterologist, was in the middle of a client consultation when Queen’s issued a formal apology for expelling her great-uncle from the School of Medicine. Stifling tears, she paused the appointment to watch the livestream with her patient. “I was very...

Following formal apology, Commission strikes fund for Black medical students

Written on June 3, 2019. Posted in News.

Less than a year after a PhD candidate alerted the University to a 1918 policy that banned Black medical students from enrolling, a commission to address the historic wrong is taking steps to reconcile the damage. At the University’s April Senate meeting, Principal Daniel Woolf and Richard Reznick,...

Arts Against Post Racialism transforms the Agnes

Written on October 26, 2017. Posted in Arts.

On Wednesday, the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre was transformed into a visual protest against racism. Curated by lead artist Camille Turner, the exhibition Arts Against Post Racialism works to combat the existence of “blackface” on Canadian campuses through a variety of media by prominent Black artists. On...

Racism alive but subtle at Queen’s

Written on February 27, 2015. Posted in Features.

In her first week at Queen’s, Toni Akinwumi was approached by an intoxicated female student who said, “Oh my God, there’s a black chick. Oh my God, that’s crazy. I have no black friends — be my friend.” Akinwumi, ArtSci ’15, said she felt their motivation for hanging out with her had much less to...

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Hundreds gather for Black Lives Matter vigil in Skeleton Park

Medicine Admission Award for Black Canadians goes unawarded

Queen’s asks: Who gets to be a doctor?

Operation Black Vote comes to Queen’s ahead of federal election

‘It’s still a very sad and painful story for the family’

Following formal apology, Commission strikes fund for Black medical students

Arts Against Post Racialism transforms the Agnes

Racism alive but subtle at Queen’s

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