26sep12:00 pm12:45 pm12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Stop AntiBlack Racism: 8 Ways to Act Now with Nadia L. Hohn
Event Details
Join author Nadia L. Hohn in this interactive workshop for young audiences to learn how racism affects the Black community and what they can do
Event Details
Join author Nadia L. Hohn in this interactive workshop for young audiences to learn how racism affects the Black community and what they can do to stop it. We will create antiracist art that educates and inspires action.
Speakers for this event
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Nadia L. Hohn
Nadia L. Hohn
Nadia L. Hohn, B.A. (Hon.), B.Ed., M.Ed., M.F.A. is a multilingual, award-winning author of several books for young people, including Getting Us to Grandma’s (Groundwood Books, 2024), A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice (Owlkids, 2019), Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter (HarperKids, 2018), and the Malaika series. Her first picture book, Malaika’s Costume (Groundwood Books, 2016) was the 2021 TD Grade One Book Giveaway and featured as a float in the 117th Original Santa Claus Parade. Nadia had two books released in 2023: Malaika, Carnival Queen, her fourth book in the Malaika series on May 2 and her edited anthology, The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes) on September 12. Nadia’s latest book Patty Dreams (Owlkids, 2025) was nominated for a 2026 Blue Spruce Award (Forest of Reading). Her twelfth book, STOP ANTIBLACK RACISM: 8 Ways to Act Now, will be released on October 13, 2026. Nadia is an “artivist” who wants to make sure that all young people see themselves in books. She has presented all over the world, most recently in Ireland. Nadia’s semi-autobiographical play Wheel and Turn premiered at the 2025 Windsor Fringe Festival. When she’s not lost in a story or concocting a tasty vegetarian dish, she is likely spending time in music and the arts or daydreaming about her next adventure. Nadia is a music teacher and librarian in an elementary school and creative writing instructor at post-secondary institutions in Toronto where she also lives.
Books
Stop AntiBlack Racism: 8 Ways to Act Now
Racism can make everyday things like going to a well-resourced school, accessing clean water and living in a safe community difficult or nearly impossible.
For Black people, some of their experiences of racism are unique to the Black experience and are either not shared by other racialized people or experienced differently. There are many reasons for this, and most of them are historic. Africans were largely first brought to North America in chains, and racism was used to justify their enslavement, abuse, imprisonment and control.
In Stop AntiBlack Racism, young readers will learn about the injustices Black people have faced throughout history and today. They will read about freedom fighters, civil rights leaders and resistance movements and come away with actionable steps to stand up, speak up and become a better ally in the ongoing fight against ignorance.
AuthorNadia L. Hohn
PublisherOrca Book Publishers