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I have seen Toni Morrison a handful of times in my life. The most notable was the first time, when I went to hear her read from Paradise while studying abroad in London. It was 1998. I replayed the speech I’d been practising as we waited in line. All...

“If you want to beat me for my heartfelt birthday poem, come and find me at my home ... I refuse to be gagged,” wrote firebrand Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi in a poem she posted on Facebook last September that condemned Uganda’s “aborted” democracy...

Collecting her Nobel Prize for Literature in December 1993 was one of the most terrifying moments of Toni Morrison’s entire life, she said later. Not because Morrison, who died on Monday at the age of 88, felt unworthy. Not because she had to make a ...

“Emancipate your mind from mental slavery, none but ourselves, can free our own minds” Enjoying a swim at Police Beach at about 7am on August 1, Emancipation Day, I reflected on Bob Marley’s words quoted above. The North Lagoon, translucent blue and...

We would like to endorse and commend the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda for its decision in the recently released first Bermuda integrated resource plan to reject liquefied natural gas as an option and for committing Bermuda’s electricity generation...

Another day in America, another flurry of bullets, another massacre. Sometimes, the gunman opens fire at Walmart, apparently because he believes America is being invaded by Mexicans, who must therefore die, as in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday — 22 dead...

First, I wish to commend LeYoni Junos, who was featured in a couple of articles in relation to her research work in respect to the iconic figure of Mary Prince, a Bermudian-born slave of African descent. The research she has undertaken to further exp...

July is Minority Mental Health Month, established to spotlight the flawed diagnosis of mental illness among minorities. Black men, for example, are nearly six times as likely to be given schizophrenia diagnosis as white men. That problem is compounde...

An anniversary is the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event. For some, an anniversary date is a reminder of a pleasant or happy event or time. For others, it is an unpleasant reminder of pain, hurt and suffering. It is a date that one would r...

Eleven days. That is the time it took from a Puerto Rican news organisation’s publication of nearly 900 pages of devastating documents to a governor’s forced resignation. In between the two events were the furious protests of hundreds of thousands of...