Filmmaker Roger McTair focused his lens on the lives of Black Canadians

Roger McTair made an indelible contribution to his adopted home, documenting the lives and struggles of Black Canadians in a series of groundbreaking films, as well as writing poetry, columns and short fiction, and influencing countless young people as a professor.“Roger speaks to us in many ways,” said Carl James, a professor who holds the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at York University’s Department of Education, “through films, teaching, a book, poetry and activism. His contribution is quite significant and not only to Blacks, but for Canadian society as a whole in understanding how it became a multicultural society.”