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Last week, with encouragement from President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar would not be allowed to visit the country as planned because of their opposition to the I...

Education is not only the foundation for success in people’s lives, but it is also something that enhances lives. Every child should have access to a high-quality education, so that they may live their life to the fullest extent. The Bermuda public...

On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine published a series of essays constituting what it calls “The 1619 Project”, a look at America’s legacy of slavery at the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to what is now the United ...

Two years ago when a group of tiki torch-wielding racists held their deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, they shared some common traits. They were white, yes, and they were also overwhelmingly male. The most visible white nationalists are gene...

Five days ago in Lima, Peru, I stood at the top of an awards podium with my team-mates and received a gold medal for fencing in the 2019 Pan American Games. The room wasn’t crowded, there weren’t all that many cameras flashing, and there certainly we...

Reparations to African-Americans for slavery, and the systemic oppression that followed, is now the stuff of congressional hearings and Democratic presidential debates. Twenty-nine per cent of Americans support reparations, according to Gallup, up fr...

In my motion to adjourn speech on July 19, I stated that I intend to be the longest-serving education minister in Bermuda. This was not said to be vain, but was said because I recognise how disruptive it can be to our education system to have a revol...

The most powerful moment in Larry Nassar’s 2017 court proceedings came in the form of his victims’ blistering confrontation of the man who had gotten away with so much for so long. Woman after woman rose in a Michigan courtroom to excoriate the disgr...

The Premier, David Burt, was quoted as making the following comment in the House of Assembly on July 12: “I don’t think economic reasons are the main reasons that people leave Bermuda. The main [reasons] revolve around education and issues inside our...

Yesterday morning, Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, went to the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where, four years ago, white supremacist Dylann Roof fatally shot nine people at a Bible stu...