Keisha Jefferies, a PhD candidate in the school of nursing at Dalhousie University, says racism is embedded in nursing education. Jefferies says cases studies in curriculum content often present Indigenous patients as struggling with alcohol dependency and refer to Black people as often having poor dental hygiene. “You’re attaching a lot of these assumptions to groups.” Racism in nursing curriculum is an issue RNAO has recognized and wants to eliminate. The association’s Black Nurses Task Force (BNTF), which was launched in June 2020, is tackling this and other issues of discrimination in the profession (read more about the BNTF in our Fall 2020 issue). The task force is co-chaired by RNAO Immediate Past-President Dr. Angela Cooper Brathwaite and nurse practitioner (NP) Corsita Garraway. Cooper Brathwaite says, “Racism is a learned behaviour. If people are open and willing to listen and understand where other people are coming from, [then] they too… would be allies of people of colour.” (University Affairs, Jan. 15)