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Juneteenth — Emancipation Day, 1865 — was supposed to start a new era of black wealth creation. After 12 generations of being subject to slavery’s institutionalised theft, four million African-Americans were now free to earn incomes and degrees, hold...
DATE: Jun 20, 2019
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The following is a first-person account from a young man who tells how he was let down by the Department of Child and Family Services and a foster care system that left him to fend for himself. Given the troubling nature of these revelations, the man...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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When a child arrives in our world as a beautiful, precious new life to be celebrated, as much as we derive happiness from our perception that their future life will be a great success, that is not always the case.
Children are the future promise of ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
The internet has enabled the flourishing of countless subcultures, from the harmless to the less so. Lately, one of the latter group has begun to break into the mainstream: the “incels”.
Incel is short for “involuntary celibate” and, as their self-im...
DATE: Jun 08, 2019
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“Our cultural base is the tie that binds. It is the source of our unity and power.” — Wade Nobles, PhD
On May 22, I attended an assembly at Elliot Primary School. Sherrie-Lynn Lilley and her team were the presenters at this assembly. It was very em...
DATE: Jun 07, 2019
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Dear Sir,
Bermuda, I wish to introduce you to my father, Larry Woolgar. Many may know him from his time as a men’s clothing buyer and manager for The English Sports Shop, Aston & Gunn and Gibbons Company. Alternatively, you may know him from the lov...
DATE: Jun 03, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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“There is something dreadfully wrong with an education/socialisation process that leaves us ignorant of our past, strangers to our people, apes of our oppressors and creatures of habitual shallow thought and trivial values” — Wade Nobles, PhD in the ...
DATE: May 30, 2019
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The graduation caps have been thrown and summer bliss beckons. The SAT is nothing but a hazy, horrible memory, which is perhaps why the College Board chose this month to announce its latest tweak to the “test from hell”.
Last week, the board revealed...
DATE: May 27, 2019
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Democracy is an ideal that is not easily achievable. Unfortunately, too many people think we have achieved it already, simply because we are allowed to vote.
The right to vote is only one principle and even there the right is not exercised fully. Th...
DATE: May 27, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Dear Sir,
I refer to the countervailing opinions on pages 4 and 5 of your newspaper of May 19, 2019. Each article expresses the interpretation of “facts” as perceived by the respective writer. This interpretation is influenced inevitably by the life ...
DATE: May 22, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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