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Dear Sir, The op-ed by Monica Jones (Royal Gazette, July 15) was interesting and no doubt well-intentioned. But it would have had more validity if it had been more balanced. Her obvious self-induced blindness reinforces the walls she writes about rat...

By now, most have seen the jarring dash cam video of police officer Jeronimo Yanez shooting Philando Castile as Castile calmly reached for his licence. Just as shocking, a jury acquitted Yanez. The verdict, in the eyes of many, was just one more piec...

Senator Jeff Baron has condemned a post on his sister’s Facebook page, insisting that he did not support discriminatory or racist comments. In a statement issued yesterday morning, the Minister of National Security said he was outraged by the post t...

Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda has released its 2017 Racial Justice Platform, urging political candidates to take action which will bring about “greater racial justice and economic equity” in Bermuda. In a statement released this afternoon, Cur...

Theatre boycott heroine and author Florenz Maxwell is hosting a book launch for her newly released Girlcott this month. Ms Maxwell, who was one of the members of the Progressive Group that was instrumental organising the boycott and paving the way ...

If you are truly content in your own skin then no one on this earth can make you feel inferior. Author and activist Florenz Maxwell learnt this valuable lesson as an adolescent in face of a society that treated black people as second-class citizens. ...

The environment, social change and economic challenge were among the issues tackled by Somersfield Academy students as part of the school’s annual What Matters Conference. Each student was tasked with coming up with a well-researched project about a...

Racism in its various forms will probably never be eradicated throughout the world, where hatred continues to cast a dark shadow over efforts by people of all races who strive to build an environment in which there is freedom to worship without fear ...

For one black Bermudian woman reflecting candidly on race, the group conversation afforded by Bermuda’s latest effort at truth and reconciliation talks has proven instructive. “There will always be the tension, the differences of opinion, and there w...

Sharing and listening in an atmosphere of mutual trust, the diverse groups in a first round of truth and reconciliation talks have found a rapport on Bermuda’s notoriously enduring and difficult subject: race. “Bermuda is a small place — we can do th...

Anti-racism charity Curb has called for businesses to detail their policies and positions on racism. The call comes in the wake of a controversial Facebook post by restaurateur Rick Olsen about the December 2 protests. While the charity attacked the ...