Black Students in Higher Education

53% of Black students in Canada are in the academic stream. This is significantly less than the 81% of white students and the 80% of other racialized students. Society cannot seem to get rid of the FALSE narrative that Black students are less academic than their peers, seen and heard in their backhanded comments and questioning looks. There are too many teachers and school counsellors misdirecting Black students; guiding us into the box colonial society has built for us instead of letting us build our own.

This is why Deborah Peart formed the Black Access to Educational Excellence (BAEE) initiative at the University of Toronto (U of T), which connects Black students with the knowledge