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Fifty years ago this week, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr gave one of the best-known, yet mostly unheard speeches in American history — his Mountaintop speech. He spoke for more than 40 minutes, but only his concluding lines, about looking off in...

Businessman Michael Leverock was a schoolboy at the time of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, who was murdered 50 years ago tomorrow. Mr Leverock said: “I grew up in the Sixties, in his time and his era — it was taught to me as a child. “I a...

The life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, who died 50 years ago, is to be celebrated tomorrow with a commemoration of the power of dreams. Glenn Fubler of Imagine Bermuda said Dr King’s vision of social justice left a legacy that was “...

Leah Scott, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, issued a statement ahead of the 50th anniversary tomorrow of the death of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. While Dr King would always be remembered for his “I have a Dream” speech at the March on Wa...

An employee won the right to their personnel records after an investigation by information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez. The employee had made a request under Public Access to Information to see their records after they were referred to counselli...

This past weekend was the Faith and Politics Institute’s annual civil rights pilgrimage to Selma, Birmingham and Montgomery with John Lewis, the Democratic representative of Georgia. Because I went last year, I didn’t think there could possibly be mo...

The 40th anniversary of the 1977 riots is a chance to remind the country of values that have since sustained Bermuda, activist Glenn Fubler said yesterday. Saturday marks four decades since the hangings of Erskine “Buck” Burrows and Larry Tacklyn spa...

American speaker Hilary Shelton will take part in a series of events leading up to Human Rights Day on December 10. Mr Shelton, who was invited to Bermuda by the United States Consulate, will participate in activities in partnership with Citizens Upr...

The story of Bermuda’s 1959 theatre boycott to end segregation is in the spotlight in Bermuda and overseas thanks to author Florenz Maxwell’s book Girlcott. Girlcott, which took second prize in Code’s 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature last yea...

Freedom of information comes up for discussion on International Right to Know Day this Thursday, with a panel including Sam Strangeways from The Royal Gazette. Qian Dickinson from Bermemes, and Jonathan Starling from Greenrock, will join Ms Strangewa...

An open letter to labour leaders on International Labour Day: Dear labour leaders, Let me offer “Best Wishes” on this International Labour Day, a time which provides our community an opportunity to reflect on our collective responsibility, especially...

Dear Sir, I am writing about the people protest on December 2, 2016. It was a day that would live in the memory of many Bermudians for the rest of their natural lives and go in the history books. That day drew parallels for me of South Africa aparthe...