The next Bermuda Race Relations Initiative panel discussion is to take place today.

Margaret Beale Spencer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, will be the keynote speaker for the subject of race in education. It will start at Bermuda College's North Lecture Hall, from 6.30 p.m.

Ms Spencer is a specialist in child and development psychology, and has studied how adolescents form their identities and sense of competence in a multi-ethnic world.

She has a long-standing interest in the development of African-American children and youths who grow up in low economic resource families.

Previous discussions under the Bermuda Race Relations Initiative include The Colour of Money, which looked at how race affects opportunities in business; and the impact of the media on race relations on the Island.