Black History Month at McGill
Black History Month aims to celebrate and centre Blackness throughout the history, the present, and the future of McGill and beyond.
2025 Black History Month Programming
As with past years, the Equity Team hosts two Black History Month events: the Opening Ceremony open to all students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members, and the McGill Black Community Gathering open to Black students, staff, and faculty at McGill to gather and celebrate in-person.
The keynote address for this year's Opening Ceremony will be delivered by architect Shane Laptiste. Laptiste is the principal and co-founder of the award-winning Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA). His architectural interests investigate community informed architecture that is responsive to the cultural and spatial needs of the impacted users. He has a particular interest in the ways in which Black communities have and continue to respond to space and the environment. He is a licensed architect in Ontario and Quebec and holds BSc(Arch) and MArch degrees from McGill University, where he also serves as a studio instructor.
Join us throughout the month of February for a variety of events organized by the McGill Equity Team and the wider McGill community!
Questions? Contact lynda.bulimo [at] mcgill.ca.
2025 Black History Month Partners and Sponsors
Black History Month is organized by McGill’s Equity Team in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic), in partnership with the Faculty of Engineering and the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture.
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