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great-grandfather Joseph Henry Thomas, a prominent black Bermudian in the 19th Century.
Born 1823 Died: April 29, 1908 (at the age of 85 years) 1844: Member of the Founding Committee of the Industrious Man's Library `for the Benefit of the Black an...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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Bermudian slave woman, Mary Prince, was an extraordinary person.
Born in 1788 at Brackish Pond, Bermuda, she is famous for being the first black British woman to escape from the abomination of slavery and publish a record of her experiences.
Her stor...
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performing arts'' this weekend in the latest show for Kidfest '99.
Tales & Scales, a non-profit organisation based in Indiana, was founded in 1986 to "fulfil a need for quality arts programming'' for children and family audiences.
The four-musician t...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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"Chained on the Rock'' is a compelling historical work objectively written by the late Cyril Outerbridge Packwood, a noted historian and scholar. This graphic text about slavery in Bermuda was published in 1975 and is an expansive source. It is a mus...
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Samuel David Robinson (1848-1920) and Elmira (Thomas) Robinson (1854-1940).
She died in 1973.
She received her early education at the Bermuda Collegiate Institute and the Berkeley Institute where she was a very young member of the Berkeley's first cl...
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It was not such a long time ago -- in the 1930s. A young child, growing up and reaching out, was denied admittance to the Bermuda Public Library -- because he was black.
In 1985, the same young boy, long since grown to manhood, returned to that libra...
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Police are investigating a complaint that a Hamilton music store sold a compact disc containing "offensive and racial'' words to a 12-year-old girl.
A woman has complained that "Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of my Blood'' by New York rapper DMX was sold t...
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
That famous day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers stood firm on the bridge at Selma was my birthday. March 7th, 1965; I was eighteen, an a level history student, and already awake to the politics of my community.
Our curriculum dealt ...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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Britain many years prior to slaves being freed in 1834.
In Bermuda, 4,000 slaves were freed on August 1, 1834. In 1902, black lodges started Cup Match to mark the anniversary of Emancipation.
According to author Madeleine Burnside, who has written ab...
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over 6,000 years ago.
Its produce -- olives -- is often pressed to produce an oil which can be used in a variety of culinary ways.
Olive oil can be used in dressings for salads or even combined with herbs and used as a dip for thick crusty bread. Her...
DATE: Feb 17, 1999
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