racism News Archive
![Anthropology professor Warren Clarke.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Warren-Clarke-150x150.png)
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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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.
![Jerome Cranston event poster](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cranston-150x150.jpeg)
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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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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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
![George Rubenfeld (centre) with his family in France, 1950. // Photo credit: Belle Jarniewski, Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Rubenfeld_WEB-150x150.jpg)
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
![Yom HaShoah honours the Jews who perished in the Holocaust during the Second World War.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/war-3043372_1920-150x150.jpg)
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