Latest from Huda Hassan
Against the Grain
NOW just became one of Canada's only Black-owned publications — but rebuilding will be a struggle
The venerable Toronto magazine has a new owner ... and the shadow of over $2 million in debt. Can Brandon Gonez rebuild the digital platform without a plan to pay it off?
Against the Grain
What bell hooks and Greg Tate taught us about Black art
One year after we lost both vital Black cultural critics, Huda Hassan and Alexis Pauline Gumbs look back on their lasting legacies.
Against the Grain
Drake's Megan Thee Stallion lyric is just the latest in a long pattern of misogyny
Listeners were stunned by the "Circo Loco" lyric — but they shouldn't have been. The rapper has embraced hypermasculinity to push back against his perceived softness.
Against the Grain
How Mary Ann Shadd Cary set the blueprint for abolitionist feminist writing
The first woman to publish a newspaper in Canada was a master of disruption whose influence is still felt.
For nearly 30 years, this activist bookseller has bridged the gaps in Canadian literature
From behind her bookstore counter, Anjula Gogia has helped spread the word of feminism and anti-racism in Canada
Point of View
Why it matters who tells Black stories onscreen
Barry Avrich's controversial Canadian Screen Awards speech wasn't surprising — the film industry has a long history of co-opting Black voices without supporting Black talent.
Growing up in a segregated Montreal set the tone for Oscar Peterson's complex relationship to Canada
Black jazz musicians "coloured south of Montreal as Black as they could" — but it wasn't easy.
As we reckon with Canada's troubling history, visual art gives us what words and statistics can't
Artists like Christi Belcourt, Shantel Miller, and Elicser Elliott are painting vivid counter-narratives of race, gender, colonialism, and the spaces they occupy.
How Gyimah Gariba is using caricature to push for a more empathetic world
"I think if you're an empathetic person, you have to practise alchemy: you have to turn it into something."
Shamier Anderson and Stephan James are bringing the first all-Black award show to Canada — and it's about time
The Scarborough brothers are teaming up for the Legacy Awards, a vital new way to recognize this country's Black arts and culture.