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My first lesson in racial discrimination happened at the maximum-security prison at Calipatria, California. An older Mexican dude with the signature handlebar moustache told me in a Hollywood whisper: “Hey, homie, we don’t associate with llantas [tyr...

With great optimism, I attended a few sessions of the Dive In Festival this week. It has been heartening to see the insurance and reinsurance sectors take on Diversity and Inclusion work. As most people who have worked in the D&I space will attest, ...

Bermuda would be in denial, if we fail to accept that because of decades of entrenched racial bias, which emanated from our history of institutionalised segregation after centuries of slavery, and based on skin colour, that every election has that st...

The call took Timothy Durham by surprise. An old pal in New Jersey, Randy Roller, wanted his input about something so sensitive that he wouldn’t talk about it over the phone. “I go to Philadelphia and New York frequently for rest and relaxation, but ...

Dear Sir, It does not matter how educated or well learnt a person may be, they will never reach or lay claim to the pinnacle of perfection. Why, Mr Editor? Because there is no end to knowledge, nor will we live long enough to know or be able to acqui...

Fifty-one years ago, Willie Horton drove towards the smoke. His Detroit Tigers team-mates went home, as they were advised, and stayed away from the rioting. Horton couldn’t. His city was burning. He didn’t even change out of his uniform. Now 75, he p...

Veteran civil rights campaigner Eva Hodgson admitted that she regretted not identifying white people who are featured in her book Second Class Citizens, First Class Men, during an evening to celebrate her life and work. The race advocate, historian ...

Dear Sir, It was unfortunate that the recent Royal Gazette online article, published on June 23, entitled “Speaker draws race card on public registers”, used the terminology “race card” in the heading, even though it was not used anywhere in the arti...

A Progressive Labour Party backbencher has called for more to be done to address income inequality and racial disparity in Bermuda. Rolfe Commissiong told MPs on Friday that data from the 2016 Census highlighted that the gaps between blacks and white...

Clyde Best called on Bermudians to look each other in the eye and bridge their racial divide. Mr Best, the island’s famous footballer, said: “One thing my mother always told me — and I carry it in life today — if you treat people the way you want to ...

Owain Johnston-Barnes A ship’s crewman who used a racist word to police officers was fined $1,500 in Magistrates’ Court this week. Gronda Dobroslaw, from New Jersey, pleaded guilty to the use of offensive words in a public place in the early hours o...

Rule No 1 of successful litigation: find yourself a sympathetic plaintiff. The anti-affirmative action activists behind the present lawsuit charging Harvard University with racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions have certainly checked that...