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On July 17, congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis passed away at 80 on the same day as 95-year-old stalwart C.T. Vivian, the Reverend Martin Luther King’s favourite preacher. Both leave behind a legacy of social justice activism that played ...

See if you can spot the link between the following three vignettes. Ready? (Hint: it’s the economy). First there was Sage How did you spend your weekend? Me? I blew the dust off the Sage Report — well, only the executive Summary, if truth be told. ...

“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” — Unknown Bermuda, we are three years into the landslide Progressive Labour Party victory to run our governmen...

The blockbuster Supreme Court term that just ended was a (nearly) unmitigated disaster for movement conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts declined to overturn precedent on abortion rights. Conservative activist Justice Neil Gorsuch showed he woul...

I write to you to express my anger and confusion over Charles Richardson’s statement in court this past week; namely that his 20-year-old client should be treated lightly for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old because “it has become sport for young ...

Hearteningly, it seems that many Bermudians disapprove of the comments made by Charles Richardson last Friday. It is encouraging to see so many speaking out against his behaviour. However, it seems as though many more either do not understand the iss...

As the United Kingdom confronts the issue of racism in British society and the country’s longstanding problem of injustice towards people of African descent, it should not be forgotten that the people of the British Virgin Islands are also victims of...

Sometimes it requires a personal rather than political or professional perspective to see beyond the borders of a seemingly divisive circumstance, and to offer a dispassionate comment. I was named by my father after his cousin, Hilary Alfonso McDona...

A deadly pandemic and deadly policing have brought us to a national moment of reckoning over race. Black-business lists are circulating on social media. Major corporations are taking stances on racial injustice. All because people have taken to the s...

The silver pick-up truck with a passenger-side rust spot passed the railroad tracks, then slowed down as it rolled past the crowd of demonstrators in this tiny downtown. “Black lives matter!” yelled a white woman in comfort capri pants — then she and...