After consultation and feedback from the JAFSCD Shareholder Consortium, we have released the JAFSCD Statement on Anti-Black Racism. This is a starting point and a way to remain accountable to the work that we need to do.

The ongoing systemic and systematic oppressions and anti-Black violence in the United States, Canada, and across the globe have once again been brought into the collective spotlight. These acts perpetuate historical systems of oppression and violence that are entrenched in the very institutions that are purportedly designed to serve and protect people. . . .