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Book recommendations about race and racism in America have rapidly circulated on social media and news outlets as protests against anti-black violence continue for the third week.
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk A...
DATE: Jun 19, 2020
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My husband is black, I’m not. The collective awakening, dam breaking and paradigm shifting happening in America after the killing of George Floyd has hit home for us. We have been heartened by the multiracial crowds, around the country and the world,...
DATE: Jun 18, 2020
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By now, many are aware that the Government has passed legislation amending the National Pension Scheme, granting one-time access to your pension plan up to $12,000. For some, this is much needed relief. For others, this is cause for consideration.
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DATE: Jun 18, 2020
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As I sit in a prison cell as a young black male with time fleeting, I listen to David Burt’s weekly press conferences and I can’t help but be confused.
This as the world comes to grips with the murder of George Floyd, a black man who was unarmed and...
DATE: Jun 18, 2020
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It has come to pass, Bermuda’s first female and black Governor. Whether this appointment was shaped by the Black Lives Matter protests worldwide or, as countries rise out of a horrendous pandemic, soul-searching far beyond democratic or socialistic g...
DATE: Jun 17, 2020
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From Washington to Whitefish, Montana, white America is reckoning with racism, publicly demonstrating its belief that black lives have been too long neglected and abused. There’s just one question: why now?
According to a Civiqs poll, 53 per cent of ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2020
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The following is an edited version of the speech delivered during the motion to adjourn in the virtual House of Assembly on June 5, 2020
The Premier announced last evening that Bermuda should be moving to Phase 3 on June 11. This news will be welcome...
DATE: Jun 12, 2020
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Ben Smith
“We must be concerned, not merely about who murdered him, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy that produced the murder”
The above quote was from the Reverend Martin Luther King’s eulogy of the Reverend James Reeb, a white minister,...
DATE: Jun 12, 2020
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Glenn Fubler
I have been reflecting on the Black Lives Matter march. At the time there was so much emotion, it was difficult to take in the enormity of what was taking place. It was a momentous event — hopefully a watershed moment in Bermuda’s history.
The sheer ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2020
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On June 1, David Burt, the Premier, addressed Bermuda in the wake of the death of George Floyd. At that time he also paid tribute to the late Eva Hodgson. In that speech, the Premier confronted the issue of institutional racism in Bermuda and said th...
DATE: Jun 11, 2020
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