Black Grad celebrates accomplishment, and resilience

Students, friends and family come together in person to highlight achievement in trying times

Black members of McGill’s Class of 2022 celebrated the completion of their degrees at the fourth annual Black Grad event on Sunday, May 1 at the Omni Hotel in downtown Montreal. For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, graduating students were able to mark the event with their friends, families and professors in person.

Read the full article on the Reporter website (English only).


McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

For more information about traditional territory and tips on how to make a land acknowledgement, visit our Land Acknowledgement webpage.


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