About
It's Always Been About The Work
MATTHEW R. MORRIS is an educator, anti-racism advocate, and writer based out of Toronto. He is the author of the instant national best seller Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging and the forthcoming Bad Lessons. He earned a BA (Hons) and an MA in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto. In addition to teaching, his work and public speaking on the deconstruction of Black masculinity, hip-hop culture, and schooling has taken him across North America to consult on and learn about the challenges facing students and educators in the current education system. He has written articles for TVO, Huffington Post, ETFO Voice, and Education Canada and has been featured in Toronto Star and Sun, on CBC Radio and CityNews.
Morris’s TEDx talk, “The Fresh Prince Syndrome,” speaks to the perils and promises urban Black male students are presented with in public schooling in today’s ever evolving world. In 2025, he received the King Charles III Coronation Medal, an achievement that honours individuals who have made a significant contribution to Canada.
He currently teaches in the Faculty of Education at Ontario Tech University and believes that the more credentials behind his name only equate to the more tattoos down his forearms.
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My Mission
What does it mean to be a Black man with an immigrant father and white mother living on Indigenous land? This is one major question I’ve wrestled with for the first thirty-five years of my life. As a Black man, I do not speak definitively for all Black people.
Some racism is cemented through external, systemic, and overt acts—from devastating micro-aggressions that accumulate over a lifetime to devastating acts of physical violence. And some racism is internalized so deeply that even Black people vomit it up.
My narrative stems from a deconstruction of my experiences and the conclusions drawn from my learnings on how racism has operated through and around me.
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