{"id":69216,"date":"2020-11-16T13:10:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=69216"},"modified":"2020-11-16T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:10:50","slug":"public-talk-to-focus-on-black-social-movements-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/11\/public-talk-to-focus-on-black-social-movements-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Public talk to focus on Black social movements in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Department of Political Science will wrap its Fall Speaker Series with a talk on Black social movements and tactics used to incite change in public health and policing.<\/p>\n<p>The online presentation, held Thursday, Nov. 19 from noon to 1 p.m., will feature Tari Ajadi, a PhD candidate from the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University.<\/p>\n<p>Ajadi will present a talk entitled \u201cPower in Presence: Black Social Movements in Policing and Public Health in Nova Scotia and Ontario,\u201d in which he will share his in-progress doctoral research.<\/p>\n<p>Ajadi\u2019s work is community-focused and aims to better understand the tactics used by Black social movements in Nova Scotia and Ontario to prompt policy change in public health and in policing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in attending the talk can email <a href=\"mailto:politicalscience@brocku.ca\">politicalscience@brocku.ca<\/a> to register and receive the Microsoft Teams event link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What<\/strong>: \u201cPower in Presence: Black Social Movements in Policing and Public Health in Nova Scotia and Ontario\u201d presented by Tari Ajadi<\/p>\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Thursday, Nov. 19 from noon to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where<\/strong>: Microsoft Teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Department of Political Science will wrap its Fall Speaker Series with a talk on Black social movements and tactics used to incite change in public health and policing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":69217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[9702,9703,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69218,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69216\/revisions\/69218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}