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Last week I sent a release to the media to announce the Bermuda Police Service would be involved in the LGBTQ Pride Parade on August 31, 2019.
However, this was not just to say we would provide some officers to help with any route taken or traffic m...
DATE: Jun 25, 2019
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When I came out of the closet in Oklahoma in 2012, the Oklahoma City Pride Parade seemed like the pinnacle of gay culture. My first time attending that spring saw drag queens in undecorated truck beds screaming at us to get to shelter ahead of an imp...
DATE: Jun 24, 2019
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On Friday, June 14 — Freedom Friday — a diverse gathering of 150 or so took place in City Hall’s Earl Cameron Theatre for 60 minutes in Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott.
The appropriateness of the venue was noted, given tha...
DATE: Jun 21, 2019
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Glenn Fubler
Juneteenth — Emancipation Day, 1865 — was supposed to start a new era of black wealth creation. After 12 generations of being subject to slavery’s institutionalised theft, four million African-Americans were now free to earn incomes and degrees, hold...
DATE: Jun 20, 2019
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Did Cup Match originate with the emancipation of slaves on August 1, 1834? If so, why was the first Cup Match played on June 12, 1902 — a date that recently passed without mention? How did “Somers Day” come to be the second day of Cup Match?
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DATE: Jun 20, 2019
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“They’re just getting so blunt,” Ruby Corado said. “It’s just out there. It used to be more isolated.”
Corado could be talking about support for the LGBT community.
The Pride parades across the Washington region this month drew huge crowds. And they ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Petula Dvorak
All my professional life, I have been driven by the conviction that the unique freedom of political cartooning entails a great sense of responsibility.
In 20-plus years of delivering a twice-weekly cartoon for the International Herald Tribune first, ...
DATE: Jun 18, 2019
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O.J. Simpson is back in the news, joining Twitter and promising in a video that he had “a little getting even to do”, 25 years to the week of his most infamous moment. But he’s far from the household name he was on the night of June 17, 1994.
That ni...
DATE: Jun 18, 2019
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Late at night on August 15, 1998, a source called me from the White House residence. He wanted me to know that Bill Clinton had decided to tell a federal Grand Jury that he had an “inappropriate relationship” with Monica Lewinsky. After months of den...
DATE: Jun 18, 2019
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While the Democratic candidates seem to genuinely get along, it was inevitable that eventually they would grow more explicitly critical of one another. Which isn’t a bad thing — voters are facing a choice, and need to know what’s good and bad about t...
DATE: Jun 14, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Paul Waldman
