CanAfro Research Institute Launches Daily Anti-Black Racism Tracker Dashboard

September 30, 2026 

Waterloo, Ontario – September 30, 2026: The CanAfro Research Institute officially launched its Black Data Sovereignty Project and Daily Anti-Black Racism (ABR) Tracker Dashboard, a new national platform designed to document and visualize reported daily Anti-Black Racism and anti-Black hate incidents across Canada.

The dashboard brings together documented incidents from media monitoring, community and partner reports, CanAfro’s own data collection, and relevant open data, allowing users to explore patterns by year, province or territory, city, incident type, and setting. The platform is intended to support research, journalism, human-rights work, policy development, community planning, education, advocacy, reporting, and funding applications.

The launch featured Dr. Tedla Desta, Project Lead, and Bimbo Solanke, Data Analyst, with Dr. Beverly-jean M. Daniel, Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, as respondent. Funded by the Foundation for Black Communities through the Catapult Stream (April 2026–March 2027), the project aims to address gaps in systematic data on daily ABR and, subject to continued support, eventually expand toward a Global Daily ABR Tracker.

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