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Charles Melvin Sherrod died on Tuesday at the age of 85 in Albany, Georgia, a place he went to in 1961 and never left. If you are not from southwest Georgia, his name may not be familiar. But Charles Sherrod is the most important civil rights figure ...

Between 1987 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for the murders of 17 Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latino men and boys in Wisconsin. Eleven victims were African-American, and most murders were committed on Milwaukee’s predominantly Black Norths...

Sustainability can seem like a luxury concept, especially considering the cost of solar panels or the price of organic foods. It is not easy to ignore the inequalities of many sustainable options and, given their unique Bermudian perspective, the stu...

The Progressive Labour Party is in the midst of holding its annual delegates conference. On October 20, the delegates will either confirm David Burt or they will elect a new leader for the party — and Bermuda will have a new premier. I am therefore i...

Joe Biden announced last week that he had issued a general pardon for all those convicted of the federal crime of simple cannabis possession. This applies to about 6,500 people and possibly numerous others convicted of the same crime in the District ...

I think it was the year 2000 when Stanley Ratteray chaired a mini-symposium for the United Bermuda Party, which was then trying to find its way after election defeat in 1998. I had expressed the position internally, and externally it was time for the...

What a difference a month makes. On September 5, the British public were inundated with newspaper headlines heralding Liz Truss as the next Prime Minister of Britain. She had won the internal election fair and square in a contest against former chanc...

“You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time” — Abraham Lincoln What follows is the Progressive Labour Party’s secret step-by-step blueprint for u...

We should never give in to apathy even when seemingly horribly lost. We each live inside of our own spheres of influence and it is too easy to say to oneself one cannot make a difference, particularly when it appears that power is distributed so narr...

What do Neanderthals have to do with medicine? More than enough, it turns out, to earn Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize in Medicine for sequencing the Neanderthal genome. It may sound more like a feat worthy of an anthropology prize, but scientists are a...