297 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 10 • no 2 • 297–318 • © Policy Press 2022 Print ISSN 2049-8608 • Online ISSN 2049-8675 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021X16530491997004 Accepted for publication 25 May 2022 • First published online 27 June 2022 research article ‘We want our own data!’: building Black community accountability in the collection of health data using a Black emancipatory action research approach Alicia Boatswain-Kyte 1 , alicia.kyte@mcgill.ca Shari Brotman, shari.brotman@mcgill.ca McGill University, Canada Tiffany Callender, tiffany@facecoalition.com Federation of African Canadian Economics (FACE), Canada Barbara Dejean, barbara.dejean@mcgill.ca Jill Hanley, jill.hanley@mcgill.ca Nabeela Jivraj, nabeela.jivraj@mcgill.ca McGill University, Canada Thierry Lindor, tlindor@infuenceorbis.com Infuence Orbis, Canada Jennifer Moran, jmoran@cdnbca.org Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association (CDNBCA), Canada Sean Muir, sean@infuenceorbis.com Dinesh Puspparajah, dinesh@infuenceorbis.com Infuence Orbis, Canada Community accountability is a model through which to redress anti-Black racism in health care and to create community-based participatory research about the health of Black Canadians. This article provides a case example of a study undertaken by a Black community collective in Quebec made up of researchers, activists, service providers, business leaders and their allies who sought community accountability in making visible the impact of COVID-19 on local Black communities. The principles articulated within the Black emancipatory action research approach (Akom, 2011) are used to ground an analysis of our research-activist process in order to illuminate how knowledge gained through the collection of data can be used to help inform Black communities about the realities, needs and concerns of their members, to advocate for rights and entitlements, and to work towards community accountability in research that empowers Black communities, both in Quebec and elsewhere. SPECIAL ISSUE • Black Lives Matter Unauthenticated | Downloaded 08/20/22 11:05 PM UTC