BLAC

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.

12/10/2025

Today is Human Rights Day. We reaffirm our commitment to the continuous fight for equity, justice and the full recognition of Black humanity.

Our human rights matter. Our stories matter. Our voices must — and will — be heard.

When we stand together, we can build a world where Black people can live free from racism and oppression.

12/02/2025

At BLAC, we stand with Black communities across Ontario and beyond to confront these ongoing harms. Our work is grounded in the recognition that abolition is not only about dismantling systems of exploitation but also about building the conditions for Black communities to thrive moving forward.
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10/18/2025

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12/20/2024

📅 Holiday Closure Notice: Our office will close on December 24, 2024 and reopens on January 2, 2025. We wish you all a joyful and peaceful holiday season!