The Black Culture / Popular Culture (BCPC) Conference 2024 brought together Black youth, scholars, artists, educators, and community partners at Toronto Metropolitan University to explore how Black culture shapes, defines, and drives popular culture. Centering Black youth as creators, critics, and knowledge-makers, the conference created a dynamic space for dialogue, creativity, and collective learning.

Through panels, workshops, and youth-led discussions, BCPC 2024 examined key issues such as media representation, digital culture, gaming, art, fashion, and wellness. The conference foregrounded Black cultural production as a site of resistance, imagination, and community building, while addressing the structural inequities Black youth continue to navigate across education, media, and cultural industries.

With participation from over 50 Black high school students from across the GTA, BCPC 2024 demonstrated the power of youth-centred, community-engaged scholarship. The event laid the foundation for ongoing research, creative collaboration, and future programming that positions Black youth not only as participants, but as architects of cultural and liberatory futures.