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Cause for change: lessons for Black liberation

Using the examples of Grenadian-born Jean Augustine, the first Black Member of Parliament in Canada, and Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley, the piece argues that the ethos of the Emigrant Ambassador—the collective empowerment of Black feminism, liberation, and radicalism—ushered in a new era for change abroad and in Canada, as transnational and international change was driven by Black women from the West Indies.

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