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Anthropology professor Warren Clarke.

Faculty of Arts

The Conversation: Young Black men in Canada face racism, ageism and classism when looking for work

January 23, 2024 — 
Young Black men in Canada face racism, ageism and classism when looking for work

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People standing together. (Shutterstock)

Why words matter: The negative impacts of racial microaggressions on Indigenous and other racialized people

April 13, 2021 — 
Microaggressions may seem small or 'micro,' but as incessant forms of racism, they can have big impacts on mental health, physical health and social life

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Faculty of Social Work

Addressing institutional & systemic oppression symposium series

November 26, 2020 — 
The Faculty of Social Work in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the International Decade for People of African Descent present Addressing Institutional & Systemic Oppression symposium series.

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Jerome Cranston event poster

Faculty of Education

Let’s talk

September 25, 2020 — 
Former U of M prof, Jerome Cranston is hosting an online talk on ways to address systemic racism in education at 7 p.m. on Sept. 30.

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Hockey goal score light

The Conversation: How an NHL street party caused a social media storm about racism

April 18, 2019 — 
'We — and our media outlets — need to think about the ways we use language and how that language may perpetuate bias'

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Image of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Alumni

Alumni at Home: Listen, learn, don’t repeat

January 22, 2019 — 
For decades, Belle Jarniewski has made it her life’s work to bolster curriculums and contribute to international resources so that the Holocaust is never forgotten or repeated

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George Rubenfeld (centre) with his family in France, 1950. // Photo credit: Belle Jarniewski, Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors

Alumni

Life after the Holocaust: Alumni who survived

January 17, 2019 — 
Jan. 27 marked the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Second World War – a day set aside by the United Nations to commemorate the Holocaust

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Yom HaShoah honours the Jews who perished in the Holocaust during the Second World War.

Yom HaShoah remembered through UM grad’s research and dedication

April 11, 2018 — 
The organizer of the Yom HaShoah memorial is Belle Jarniewski (BEd/93, Cert.Trans/02), herself a child of two survivors of the Holocaust

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