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February 21 was the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X or El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Two days before his death, in 1965, the photographer Gordon Parks interviewed him. Malcolm’s words follow: “Listening to various African leaders awakened ...

The Reverend Martin Luther King’s 91st birthday today offers an opportunity to reflect on his intrinsic qualities. Dr King asked us to ignore surface matters but instead to consider the content of one’s character. This year marks the 65th anniversary...

I first met Clinton Smith in the early 1960s as a fellow student at Berkeley Institute, where his mother, Hyacinth Smith, served as school secretary. His team-mates from that 1966 championship PHC Juniors football squad remember how Clint would be i...

The festive season —Christmas through new year’s — includes a mix of traditions, dating back two millennia. That birth in a stable, speaks to the power of humility; a challenge to the current culture of hyper-consumerism and self-promotion. (small ...

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. This quote from Albert Einstein speaks to the matter of how most countries have spent many decades attempting to address the matter of substance abuse. November 11 ...

The Reverend T. Wendell Foster passed peacefully at his home in New York last week after decades of service in the United States and Bermuda. It happens that I had the fortune of catching up with this mentor and his extended family during his visit t...

On Labour Day 2018, while pushing a friend, Alvin Williams, in a wheelchair into a KEMH elevator, an acquaintance called out to me, that he thought that I would be at Union Square, at that time. His comment sparked the thought, that assisting someone...

“Emancipate your mind from mental slavery, none but ourselves, can free our own minds” Enjoying a swim at Police Beach at about 7am on August 1, Emancipation Day, I reflected on Bob Marley’s words quoted above. The North Lagoon, translucent blue and...

That July 18 was the 101st birthday of Nelson Mandela made it very appropriate to hold the prize presentation for the quiz of the 60th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott. This took place at One Communications’ Church Street venue, just across the st...

The Theatre Boycott began on June 15, 1959 as an adventure of civic engagement to fashion a better Bermuda. The island community entered uncharted waters, a historic journey that offers a treasure for present and future generations. That bounty is fo...