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In the autumn of 1954, four months after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in District of Columbia public schools in a companion case to Brown v Board of Education, six of the city's seven all-white high schools accepted black students for the f...

My earliest months of life were spent in a cotton sack, dragged along by my parents as they picked cotton in the fields of the large East Texas plantation where they toiled as sharecroppers in the 1940s. I learnt from them that my life would continue...

We hear the public are crying out, “Where is the beef?” They have heard the Throne Speech, seen the Auditor-General's report; all they need now is to reconcile the two. Before going any farther, while it's obvious the country needs more money circula...

The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families welcomes the Government’s 2020 Throne Speech. From early in the speech and throughout, the Government makes a clear commitment to social priorities. In 2014, the IAC conducted a comprehensive Asse...

“We regret to announce the death of the Bermuda Tourism Authority in its seventh year of existence” You get the idea. The Government has announced that former national security minister and sitting Devonshire MP Wayne Caines will also become t...

October 2020 saw the start of the next phase of the Ministry of Education’s school transformation process, and the consultative phase of the Progressive Labour Party's promise to the people of Bermuda is well under way. That promise is to enact educa...

In 1919, a compassionate and beautiful Act of Parliament was passed in Britain for all Commonwealth soldiers returning from the First World War. In Bermuda, it guaranteed free hospital treatment for life at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, pensions...

The United States has experienced two periods of Reconstruction – in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and during the 1950s and 1960s. During these two eras, the nation attempted to confront a history of racial injustice and exploitation, corr...

Some sports stars dazzle on the pitch or earn headlines for their after-hours antics. Others lend their names to good causes. But it's unusual for a player in his early prime to take on a government as Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has do...

“Oft as we can we will come back again ”Here oft you will find us” — Berkeley School Song Fellow Berkeleyites, I greet you today on the 123rd anniversary of the founding of our school, our home, the Berkeley Institute. Imagine, if you ...