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Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, has rejected calls to abolish “coerced” collective worship in schools. Mr Rabain said he supported legislation which dictates that schools “shall begin with collective worship on the part of all pupils in at...

The Premier has said that the legacies of two American civil rights pioneers were “secured” as he marked their deaths. David Burt paid tribute to John Lewis, a Georgia congressman, and the Reverend C.T. Vivian, who was a Baptist minister and field ge...

Civil rights campaigner and renaissance woman Eva Hodgson was hailed yesterday as a national hero for her decades-long battle for racial equality. Dr Hodgson, an author, teacher and historian, as well as a fighter for human decency, died on Friday, a...

On March 2, 1955 — 65 years ago to the day — 15 year-old Claudette Colvin, an honour student at Booker T Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama was travelling on a bus when she and group of other blacks were ordered by the bus driver to move f...

A Bermudian woman is to be part of an annual event honouring an American civil rights icon next week. Cindy Trimm will provide the opening prayer at the Martin Luther King Jr Annual Commemorative Service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, in Atlanta, Georg...

On October 29, a diverse group of 15 members of the Planning Team gathered at the Department of Workforce Development. This collaborative group, under honorary co-chairmen Joan Dillas-Wright and Dennis Lister, were continuing a process that emerged o...

The recent decision by John Rankin, the Governor — at the request of David Burt, the Premier — to give the Reverend Charles Vinton Monk a full pardon for his conviction for criminal libel rights an historic wrong and sets an important precedent for t...

When Barack Obama won the United States presidential election in 2008, for the black Western experience it was monumental. Most of those born in the 1950s and earlier could not have imagined that such a phenomenon was possible in their lifetime. So t...

A sand sculpture of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was created on Elbow Beach over the weekend. Hannah Strang, the organiser of the annual Bermuda Sand Castle Competition, created the sculpture. Ms Strang said it was created to honour Dr King,...

Primary school pupils took part in an annual march to celebrate the life of US civil rights leader the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr yesterday. A Bermuda civil rights hero was also on hand to speak to schoolchildren about her role in a pivotal event...

In December 1967, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced the “Poor People’s Campaign” to demand basic economic and human rights, especially for people living in poverty. That campaign, led by Ral...

As a columnist I don’t wish to be partisan by failing to speak about any matter of public concern. The recent remarks that the Minister of National Security confirms to have been said by him are graphic and concerning. No, it’s not the first time a ...