Breaking Bread: Stories of Black Communities in Transition
Breaking Bread: Stories of Black Communities in Transition is a limited podcast series that takes a deeper dive into redevelopment and uncovers the truth about this phenomenon in the City of Toronto. Throughout this journey, we’ll be speaking to residents, community leaders, and industry experts to shed light on the experiences of those living through these major transitions, providing further insight into the implications of urban redevelopment on Black communities.
Episodes
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Kaydeen Bankasingh and Gary Miedema continue their conversation on heritage in Toronto. This week they discuss the impact and need for community engagement in heritage preservation.
Music: The Shift by Zakisha Brown
Friday Apr 19, 2024
Demystifying Heritage: Introduction to Heritage
Friday Apr 19, 2024
Friday Apr 19, 2024
Kaydeen Bankasingh discusses all things heritage with Gary Miedema, Project Manager for Heritage Planning. In the first of a two-part episode, Kaydeen and Gary define heritage and heritage preservation in the City of Toronto.
Music: The Shift by Zakisha Brown
Friday Apr 12, 2024
How Redevelopment Impacts Black Residents
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Shannon Spencer talks with Baliqis Hirshu, resident of Lawrence Heights, about her experience with Revitalization and the impact it's had on her. They talk about her history in the community, how redevelopment reformed her community involvement, and her hopes for Lawrence Heights.
Music: The Shift by Zakisha Brown
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
How Redevelopment Impacts Black Businesses
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Hosts Paida and Shannon talk with Jason McDonald, business owner on Eglinton West, also known as Little Jamaica. He talks about his experience running a business as the neighbourhood undergoes redevelopment.
Music: The Shift by Zakisha Brown
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
How Redevelopment Impacts Black Communities
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Kaydeen Bankasingh talks with Shannon Spencer on the impacts of redevelopment, from a theoretical perspective.
Music: The Shift by Zakisha Brown
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Land Acknowledgement
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Written and spoken by Denise Bishop-Earle, resident and community leader of Lawrence Heights.
We would like to acknowledge the sacred land on which we work, known as Tkaronto and traditionally as Turtle Island, is the unceded and ancestral territories of the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Mississauga’s of the Credit River, the Wendat and many diverse First Nations Inuit and Metis peoples.
We also acknowledge the realities and resistance of the displaced Indigenous peoples of the African continent who through enslavement and subjugation to colonial violence, were forced and coerced into migration to these lands.
Friday Mar 22, 2024
What is Redevelopment?
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Sage Bankasingh talks with Cutty Duncan, Director of Strategic Initiatives at North York Community House, and Denise Bishop-Earle, resident and community leader of Lawrence Heights about redevelopment. Dive in with us as we begin to unpack redevelopment in Toronto and how it affects Black communities.
Music: The Shift by Zakisha Brown