Source: United Nations (video statements)
The Poet Laureate of Barbados, Ms. Esther Phillips, and Ms. Shahaddah Jack, the first Youth Poet Laureate of Toronto, participated in the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 25 March 2026 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. While there, they sat down in a UNTV studio to reflect on the power of poetry and art in confronting history, honoring memory, and demanding justice.
The conversation was organized by the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery.