Journalist and writer Ira Philip, born in 1925, set out as a reporter in the 1940s in an era of rigid segregation.
He covered Bermuda’s march to civil rights and democracy, along with daily life, righ...
Ira Philip’s loyalty to labour dated back to his childhood memories of “rebels” such as American activist A. Philip Randolph.
Mr Philip, a lifelong newsman, documented the struggles of Bermudian activ...
Ira Philip, the former journalist, historian and Progressive Labour Party senator, has died, aged 92.
Mr Philip became one of Bermuda’s most celebrated reporters and columnists during a career spannin...
An eyesore at the West End has been transformed into a centre for a classic Bermudian pursuit that has returned as a sport: pilot gigging.
This Saturday, the Bermuda Pilot Gig Club will hold a regatta...
An island-wide team of chaplains has mobilised to help families deal with tragedy.
The 57 members of the Bermuda Chaplains Group also bring comfort to one another as they deal with their own losses.
T...
A writing partnership between Bermuda College students and prisoners at Westgate yesterday unveiled its work.
Shawnette Somner, an education officer at the prison was stunned at the display at the col...
An “extremely intoxicated and unruly” British passenger forced a flight to stop in Bermuda yesterday.
A police spokesman said the 39-year-old man was arrested on arrival.
He added the passenger sustai...
Hundreds of people attended a commemoration of the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr yesterday to mark the 50th anniversary of the peace activist’s murder.
Glenn Fubler, who helped organise t...
News broadcasts that the civil rights leader the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, reached Bermuda on the evening of April 4, 1968.
Among the people who heard...
The determination of the Reverend Martin Luther King in his vision for a better world stands as a monumental example of the power of dreams.
For Carika Weldon, a biochemist and researcher at De Montfo...
