The texts in this issue of the journal Possibles, co-edited by Chloé Savoie-Bernard and Kharoll-Ann Souffrant, seek to question the future potential for Black communities. By taking a critical look at these territories that we now call "Canada" and "Quebec," the authors of this issue break down both geographical and temporal boundaries by linking various spaces where the violence of slavery and colonization has uprooted Black people and their descendants.

In a subversive way, they propose in the pages of this magazine, which was founded shortly after the Quiet Revolution by well-known intellectuals from La Belle Province, paths for the future of people of African descent, by, for and with themselves, even if it means being forced to leave the place where they immigrated to return to Africa because of the blatant racism of the host country: this is what David Yesaya 's short story presented in these pages shows. With verve and courage, they weave links between the past and the present from multiple angles and formats. This could be the Afrofuturist literature of Mélodie Joseph and Octavia Butler ( Léa Murat-Ingles ), the artistic practice of the famous painter Jean-Michel Basquiat ( Tamara Thermitus ), the resumption of power through the music of Janelle Monàe ( Caroline Keisha Foray ) or documentary cinema dealing with the reality of immigration ( Kantarama Gahigiri ). Moreover, they advocate for a return to the sources, by taking root in Ayisien Voudou, a psychological tool for the Afrocentric liberation of our Zanzet, ( Kay Thellot ) or even through an in-depth (re)reading of the writings of notable intellectuals, including those who shaped Haiti, to better counter attempts to pervert their thinking and their anticolonial and postcolonial aims ( Stéphane Martelly ). Finally, they draw on the resistance of those who preceded us, notably through "maronnage" 

( Lourdenie Jean ). Ultimately, all these contributions converge towards the same horizon, namely, a praxis of freedom.

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