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In a second exclusive extract from Border Crossing Brothas: Black Males Navigating Race, Place and Complex Space, TY-RON DOUGLAS uses poetry to make a crucial point. *** This poem was written after I observed that a front-page newspaper story about a...

Ty-Ron Douglas, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri, has spent much of his adult life researching black masculinity, black family and African Diaspora Studies. And now he h...

In his 1966 debate with William Buckley about the “Playboy Philosophy,” Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner made clear that he opposes “religiously mandated, chastity-centred codes of sexual morality”. In fact, he opposes most any limit on public se...

Three black authors will be selling and signing their books at an event celebrating Bermuda’s unique culture today. Dale Butler, Sharon Apopa and David Chapman will take centre stage at The Black Collective Saturday Market in the Bermuda Industrial U...

Former Royal Gazette reporter Nadia Laws has branched out on her own with a new copywriting and PR firm. Ms Laws will launch her new business, The Media Maven, next month with the aim of targeting smaller businesses and charities. And she has already...

Colin Duerden has always been fascinated by crime. As a child he loved his father Floyd “Happy” Duerden’s stories of policing Bermuda in the 1940s and 1950s. He thought of becoming a police officer himself, at one point, but his father said “no way!”...

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening — it’s the little things that count in Bermuda. Etiquette expert Trudy Snaith has written Bermuda Shorts & More to help people who are new to the island fit in. The book covers “cultural etiquette faux pas” ...

Dear Sir, When is the Bermuda Broadcasting Company going to put the “free and clear” TV back on the air? When one phones them to ask, they are unable to say. When one asks if this is the only phone call they have received, they say “no, we get phone...

The Bermuda Tourism Authority is bidding to woo global entertainment companies to the island. “Increasingly, we talk with film and TV crews about shooting their productions in Bermuda, because they know our picturesque landscape and geographic loca...

Dear Sir, Within democracies, investigative, fact-based and unbiased reporting is a key element in the distribution of knowledge and balance of power. Without engaged and capable media, along with open stakeholder communications, contextual knowledge...

Governments in free societies operate under the banner of democracy, or at least they should, since democracy is still hailed as a system that in its true form provides the people with a voice on matters that concern their welfare, especially when it...

It’s not always easy talking to children about black history. Some parts of it are very grim and it can be hard to know what to reveal and what to hold back until the child is more mature. But historian Melodye Micere Van Putten says there is also lo...