A business leader and real estate professional, Temitope Isaac Olowolafe is based in Toronto, Canada. He is the recipient of various awards, including the Toronto Board of Trade Award for Business, the Harry Jerome Business Award, and the Arbor Award from the University of Toronto. Temitope Isaac Olowolafe contributes to the activities of the BlackNorth Initiative.
In June 2021, the initiative partnered with the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights. Both organizations announced an effort aiming to fight police brutality and racism in Canadian communities.
A statement by Wes Hall, the founder and executive chairman of BlackNorth Initiative, references the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Junior Manon in Toronto to describe situations in which people of color have been killed due to police brutality. The announcement also posits that police brutality is not only an American problem but also a Canadian one. The crux of the program fostered by BlackNorth Initiative and Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights is stated below:
-Anti-racism education.
-Human rights education with reference to the constitutionalizing of equality and the promotion of human dignity.
-Multi-cultural education, including the promotion of respect for diversity and difference across ethno-cultural and racial divides.
