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Profiles
Chatelaine, Dionne Brand is the Alchemist of Language
i-D magazine, On his debut album, Mustafa the Poet explores loss
Pitchfork, Ebhoni Is Reclaiming the Toronto R&B Crown for Women
Quill & Quire, Itah Sadu, co-owner of A Different Booklist, sees continued vitality despite a neighborhood’s ongoing change
Arts and Culture reporting
CBC Arts, Oscar Peterson’s Troubles with Home
Refinery29, The Best Canadian Shows Coming To Your TV This Fall & Winter
CBC Arts, How Gyimah Gariba is using caricature to push for a more empathetic world
Refinery29, Singer-Songwriter Amaal’s Liberation Is All Of Ours, Too
CBC Music, On Cadence Weapon's Parallel World, every song is an audio essay
i-D magazine, On his debut album, Mustafa the Poet explores loss (also in the Summer 2021 print issue)
CBC Arts, No matter how far from Toronto he goes, SAFE's music always embodies Esplanade
C-Magazine, Anique Jordan's Three-Thirty Exhibit: Ebti Nabag, Aaron Jones, and Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
BuzzFeed, The Twilight of the Angry Black Woman: Sandra Bland and Nicki Minaj
The Fader, Banning Shisha in Toronto Is About A Lot More Than Health Codes
Cover Stories
The WestEnd Phoenix, We Are Family: An Interview with Yannick Anton
Book Reviews
The National Post, In Mychal Denzel Smith's memoir, young black identity is a conflicted space between optimism and death
The National Post, Trust No Aunty: Maria Qamar has the aunt-idote for unsolicited advice
Investigative Reporting
Complex, The Black Muslim teen’s death that mainstream media ignored
Pound Magazine, Destroy All Monsters (On Rob Ford’s Anti-Graffiti Policies)
The WestEnd Phoenix, “Ford Nation’s Deep Divide”
Complex, Why this 2-month-old tweet was taken more seriously than police brutality
Complex, Does this men’s rights group deserve to be an official student organization?