Where is your imagination? This question runs throughout Sandy Hudson’s Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All. The lawyer and activist is determined to challenge the uninspired thinking that prevents police reform. “It is dangerous to continue to put off the rigorous thought, debate, and hard work necessary to build the institutions of tomorrow,” she…
Noel Ransome
Noel Ransome has published arts and culture criticism with Vice and the Globe and Mail, among other periodicals.
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Noel Ransome
The Regent Park that has been a beacon for vulnerable communities is clearly endangered. You can feel and see this trend among the new towers and topography of the Toronto neighbourhood but also in the data and census numbers that signal a slow shrinking of its Black population.
Just east of downtown, Regent Park was built as a sixty-nine-acre public housing project in the…