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27 February 2023 was created to fill a void in mainstream Canadian media by offering a digital space where the artistic, intellectual, and lived experiences of Toronto’s multifaceted Afro-Canadian community could be seen and heard. Today, it remains independently...

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• Author: Meres J. Weche
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Honouring community leadership: Inside the 2025 Novartis Health Equity Initiative Awards ceremony in Montrealhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/news/community/honouring-community-leadership-inside-the-2025-novartis-health-equity-initiative-awards-ceremony-in-montreal

02 December 2025 and affirming mental health services. Build tech-enabled tools for under-resourced communities. Empower people with lived experience to become leaders in care delivery. Cavers closed with a vision rooted in justice and humanity: “We imagine a future...

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• Author: AfroToronto Team
• Category: Community

Expanding culturally safe Black maternal care: A new partnership strengthening families across the GTAhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/news/community/expanding-culturally-safe-black-maternal-care

29 November 2025 Black women, birthing people, and families. Access to maternal and reproductive care that respects culture, identity, and lived experience remains a major concern for many Black families in the Greater Toronto Area. Stories from our communities continue...

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• Author: News Editor
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Health leaders convene to fix Black maternal care in Torontohttps://afrotoronto.com/content/news/community/health-leaders-convene-to-fix-black-maternal-care-in-toronto

09 April 2026 global research pointing to race-based gaps in care quality, provider responsiveness, and patient outcomes. Research and lived experiences from across several countries show that Black women and birthing people face higher risks of pregnancy...

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Movement, memory, and becoming at Union Station during Black History Monthhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/news/community/movement,-memory,-and-becoming-at-union-station-during-black-history-month

03 February 2026 and figuration in richly coloured collage paintings. Drawing from cinematic imagery, her work frames wayfinding as a lived, imperfect, and deeply personal process. Designed for everyday encounter Accessibility is central to the exhibition’s design....

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Black Toronto mapped in memory and movementhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/news/community/black-toronto-mapped-in-memory-and-movement

11 February 2026 Black Toronto are unfolding in the Lieutenant Governor’s Suite, carried by voices spanning generations, neighbourhoods, and lived experiences. For three days, from February 11 to 13, the exhibition Black Diasporas Tkaronto-Toronto transforms a historic...

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Ontario nurses draw the line on anti-Black racism in health carehttps://afrotoronto.com/content/news/community/ontario-nurses-draw-the-line-on-anti-black-racism-in-health-care

25 February 2026 The RNAO's message, in that context, is clear and deliberate: this organization is not backing down. A guideline built from lived experience The new guideline, titled Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Nursing, is the result of years of sustained advocacy,...

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Pikliz, jollof, jerk, injera, and more: A serious eater's guide to Afro-Caribbean and African dining in Torontohttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/lifestyle/food-and-drink/a-serious-eater-s-guide-to-afro-caribbean-and-african-dining-in-toronto

12 March 2026 without much mainstream recognition, was a food culture of extraordinary depth and variety. For a long time, that culture lived primarily in takeout windows, jerk shacks, roti counters, and neighbourhood spots that served the communities around them...

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• Author: Meres J. Weche
• Category: Food and Drink

This Week's Film Reviews ( Apr 3, 2026)https://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/movie-reviews/this-week-s-film-reviews-apr-3,-2026

29 March 2026 going to marry someone like that, she says. She suffers from old age ailments, like bleeding, but she is happy that she has lived up to the age of 85. Story number 3 ended up getting married, according to Agatha, but not to her, Agatha jokes. As Agatha...

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• Author: Gilbert Seah
• Category: Movie Reviews

Every meal counts: How Frontlines Catering is feeding community and building youth futures in Westonhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/lifestyle/food-and-drink/every-meal-counts-how-frontlines-catering-is-feeding-community-and-building-youth-futures-in-weston

10 May 2026 as Chef Assistant in December 2025 before stepping into the Culinary Lead role, brings both professional credentials and lived community experience. She's a former Kitchen Manager at Weston Neighbourhood Centre, a mom whose son attends Frontlines'...

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• Author: AfroToronto Team
• Category: Food and Drink

Breaking barriers in healthcare: Novartis Canada's Health Equity Initiative returns with a focus on womenhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/news/community/breaking-barriers-in-healthcare-novartis-canada-s-health-equity-initiative-returns-with-a-focus-on-women

14 May 2026 medicine also means reimagining who benefits from it. This initiative shows how community-led solutions can turn lived experience into meaningful impact. This year, we are focusing our support on the areas where gaps persist and where these solutions...

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• Author: News Editor
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Why Arsenal FC holds a special place in the hearts of the Black communityhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/commentaries/why-arsenal-fc-holds-a-special-place-in-the-hearts-of-the-black-community

26 May 2026 stadium did not simply exist alongside these Black communities; it grew up inside them, and they grew up around it. When I lived in Hackney in 1991, the neighbourhood felt alive with Black culture. The markets, the music from open windows, the...

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• Author: Meres J. Weche
• Category: Commentaries

Toronto International Film Festival 2025 Capsule Reviews https://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/movie-reviews/toronto-international-film-festival-2025-capsule-reviews

12 August 2025 At the same time, the government is forcing them to socialize in ways they deem acceptable to them. Tereza, 77, has lived her whole life in a small industrialized town in the Amazon, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to...

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• Author: Gilbert Seah
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This Week's Film Reviews ( Oct 24th, 2025)https://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/movie-reviews/this-week-s-film-reviews-aoct-24th,-2025

18 October 2025 Richard Linklater directs from Robert Kaplow’s script, based on Hart and Weiland’s letters. Ethan Hawke delivers a charming, lived-in performance as the troubled Rodgers’ former collaborator, lyricist Lorenz Hart, an alcoholic and marginally closeted...

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• Author: Gilbert Seah
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This Week's Film Reviews (Nov 7th, 2025)https://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/movie-reviews/this-week-s-film-reviews-nov-7th,-2025

20 October 2025 corrupt Nazi leaders. He looted art and property from occupied countries and from Jewish families targeted by the regime. He lived lavishly, collecting art, jewels, and estates while much of Germany suffered under wartime austerity. After Germany’s...

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• Author: Gilbert Seah
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Kanika Ambrose’s Moonlight Schooner sails into history with poetry, power, and Caribbean soulhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/arts-entertainment/theatre/kanika-ambrose-moonlight-schooner-sails-into-history

26 October 2025 of Caribbean life under fading colonial rule. Those stories reshaped the play, anchoring its lyrical language in lived truth. “The people in that era weren’t far removed from slavery,” Ambrose says. “Their grandparents might have been enslaved. That...

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• Author: Meres J. Weche
• Category: Theatre

Remembering who you are: Melvin D. Bakandika on worthiness, myth, and the quiet power of self-recognitionhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/lifestyle/remembering-who-you-are

19 December 2025 we had to earn in the first place? Blending mythology, popular culture, spiritual reflection, and lived insight, Bakandika presents the book as a “manual of the unworthy.” The phrase is intentionally provocative. It invites readers...

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• Author: AfroToronto Team
• Category: Lifestyle

Who shapes Canada’s AI future and who is missing from the tablehttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/business-and-innovation/who-shapes-canada’s-ai-future-and-who-is-missing-from-the-table

20 December 2025 AI governance The discussion underscores the role Black legal scholars play in shaping a more responsible AI future. Their lived experience, combined with legal and technical expertise, positions them to identify harms that might otherwise be...

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• Category: Business and Innovation

Film Reviews: Week Opening Jan 9, 2026https://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/movie-reviews/film-reviews-week-opening-jan-9,-2026

26 December 2025 still unfolding. Shot across battleground communities and key flashpoints of national tension, the documentary reveals the lived experiences of people whose determination to turn their beliefs into action places them on the front lines of America’s...

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• Author: Gilbert Seah
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Inside Ottawa’s Black Creatives Hub Showcase, where new voices leadhttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/arts-entertainment/arts-and-culture/inside-ottawa-black-creative-hub-showcase

19 January 2026 evolving creative identity. A house band sets the tone, while individual artists bring distinct perspectives shaped by lived experience, experimentation, and craft. Before listing the artists, it is worth noting how intentionally the lineup is...

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• Category: Arts & Culture