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Rinaldo Walcott

Rinaldo Walcott is a Black Canadian academic and writer, employed as an associate professor at OISE/University of Toronto in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education.

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Thursday, November 27, 2014
After Ferguson: Defend the Dead
Black people across North America are living in a state of emergency. It has been a long and unbroken state of emergency. In every instance that something called change or progress occurs other factors quickly arrive to maintain the state of emergency. From the ongoing conditions of poverty, to...
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Rinaldo Walcott

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