Some Toronto cultural groups are choosing to centre the folklore, ancestral practices and storytelling that have long been part of Carnivals across the diaspora this season. (Courtesy: northernjumbies, bluedevilmokojumbiemas/Instagram) As Toronto Carnival nears, Northern Jumbies and Blue Devils Mas Camp are looking beyond feathers and sequins to preserve the folklore, traditions and resistance that shaped … Continue reading ‘Carnival was never respectable’: How Toronto mas camps are reclaiming the body, power and public space this Carnival season
Category: History
ByIka Washington on March 26, 2026 On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly made a landmark decision. The global body formally adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. The Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime … Continue reading The Gravest Crime: Canada’s Abstention and the Call for Reparatory Justice
BVI News on March 27, 2026 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has welcomed what it describes as a “historic” United Nations resolution declaring the transatlantic trafficking and enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity, a move leaders say strengthens the region’s long-running push for reparatory justice. The resolution, adopted by the United Nations General … Continue reading CARICOM pleased as UN declares slavery the “gravest crime ever”
Lahoma Thomas is the only Canadian to win Oxford's inaugural Early Career Researcher First Book Prize By: Savara Khokhar March 13, 2026 Long before Lahoma Thomas became a scholar, she was a child sitting beside her grandmother in the Caribbean, surrounded by women talking about their lives, their communities and the challenges they faced. Those … Continue reading TMU prof wins international prize for book on Black women and political power
Old building of Le Nouvelliste on Rue du Centre in Port-au-Prince before the gang attack on April 25, 2024. Photo credit: Archives of Le Nouvelliste The Haitian government and Le Nouvelliste’s leadership hope recognition will help preserve and digitize more than a century of Haiti’s oldest daily newspaper by Juhakenson Blaise Mar. 12, 2026 Overview: Haiti’s … Continue reading Haiti nominates Le Nouvelliste archives for UNESCO heritage register
The Canada-Caribbean Institute 2026 Research Symposium opened today at the St. Augustine Campus of The UWI. In his Keynote Presentation, Canada's former Ambassador to the United Nations, the Hon. Bob Rae shared wide-ranging views on Canada-Caribbean relations, the shared colonial history of the Caribbean and Canada, reparations, security challenges in Haiti and the importance of … Continue reading Keynote Presentation from The Hon. Bob Rae to CCI Research Symposium now available on-line
Performing Power: Royalty and Reckoning in the Caribbean’ brings together academics from the Visible Crown project to examine the enduring and contested presence of the British monarchy in the Caribbean. The panel explores how royal tours, especially the pivotal 1966 tour, were carefully choreographed by the Palace and diplomatic officials in order to promote a stable, benign … Continue reading FSS | Performing Power: Royalty and Reckoning in the Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda Sunday July 5 to Sunday July 26, 2026 This will be the first year that the University of Toronto will offer a summer course in Antigua and Barbuda. There will be one course offered. The course examines the structural foundations of violence and the histories of colonial law that undergird Caribbean jurisprudence. It … Continue reading Summer Abroad – Antigua and Barbuda (July)
Bicentenary and Centenary of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 1825-2025 By Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD, FRHistS IIt is profoundly significant that in 2025, the Roman Catholic Church in Guyana (South America), and especially the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, witnessed three momentous milestones, notably, 65th Anniversary of the Consecration of the Cathedral (1960-2025) marking … Continue reading Researching the History of the Roman Catholic Cathedrals in Georgetown, Guyana
Prof. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith recently delivered the 21st Sir Archibald Nedd Memorial Lecture to the Grenada Bar Association. The video of this event is now available. Well worth a viewing. https://youtu.be/qawH-j6nET8