Reality Check Yameen Khurshid

Justice Breyer recently announced his retirement after almost 30 years as a Supreme Court Justice, and the biggest question on everyone's mind is: "who will take his place?" With President Biden announcing that he will nominate the first-ever black woman as a Supreme Court Justice, what does this mean to the youth of today?

What happened at residential schools is a dark scar on Canada's history. 150,000 children over the course of 150 years - tortured, abused, and sometimes killed. We will remember them. We will remember their pain, we will remember their legacies, and we must tell their stories.

Following the events of the brutal and pre-meditated murder of a Muslim family, I share the struggle of many Muslims around the world. It is time to acknowledge the reality and truth about our struggle.

On March 16th, 2021, 8 innocent women were killed in America solely because of their race. But hate crimes have been here much longer than we would like to accept and we have been silent for too long. So how much longer and how many more lives need to be lost until we acknowledge that these problems exist and that the only way we can bring change is if we stand up for our differences.

As we celebrate Black History Month, we take the time to ask ourselves whether we have fulfilled Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "dream". We then take a look at what the past, present and future holds for black communities around the world.

An introduction to The Reality Check - a podcast created by Yameen Khurshid with the aim to provide a fresh perspective on global events. This is Episode 0.