Over 300 Western community members attended a talk by censured independent MPP Sarah Jama and former special rapporteur to the UN and professor emeritus Michael Lynk.
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This month, Queen’s Black Academic Society (QBAS) is celebrating Blackness and fostering productive discussions about Blackness at Queen’s.
There are a series of virtual events happening on campus to celebrate Black History Month (BHM) this year, many of which were organized by QBAS.
QBAS hosted Food for Thought on Feb. 18 in collaboration with Queen’s University Muslim Student Association (QUMSA). The two associations went live on Instagram together, cooking cultural Muslim food and discussing the intersectionality of being Black and Muslim.
“I think too often we neglect to understand that when we look at things like Islamophobia or […] anti-Black racism, there is a place where these two come together,” Catherine Haba, president of QBAS, said in an interview with