The hypersexual Jezebel, the doting mammy, the angry Black woman: according to Montreal filmmaker Ayana O Shun, these three tropes dominate representations of Black women in popular media and negatively affect Black women in the real world. Her new documentary, Le Mythe de la Femme Noire (Myth of the Black Woman), breaks down these stereotypes and their histories and shows women embracing their own unique identities.
A new report released Monday found that members of visible minorities are still under-represented in senior positions in Quebec public organizations. The Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (CDPDJ) found that barriers persist not only to accessing jobs, but even more so to promotion to senior positions, despite the skills of visible minorities.
Quebec s human rights commission was forced to close 194 discrimination complaints following the Supreme Court of Canada s Mike Ward decision, commission leaders revealed Friday while presenting their activity report for the year 2021-2022.
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled that police traffic stops "without probable cause" violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The almost 170-page ruling weighed the effects and extent of racial profiling in police decisions about those stops.