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A conversation with Desmond Cole: Confronting systemic racism in Canada

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Desmond Cole is a Toronto-based journalist and activist, and one of the most well known voices in Canada on anti-Black racism. In 2015, Desmond wrote a cover story for Toronto Life magazine called The Skin I’m In, about how he had been interrogated by police more than 50 times. The piece was an urgent wake-up call for people who had been ignoring the issue of racial profiling by the cops. Now, in his new book called The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, Desmond chronicles the year 2017. Host Tamara Khandaker and Desmond sit down to talk about everything from his childhood, to what activism means, to the role that media plays in upholding systemic racism in our institutions . . . and much more.