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“Stop the racism!” “Stop the violence!” “Stop the hate!” Chants that are synonymous with the struggle of Blacks around the world. Chants crystallised last year, during the global Black Lives Matter movement. As of recently, another ethnic minority gr...

The 20th-century Bermuda, which by then had become a larger and more diverse population compared with the century that went before, was characteristically different in that — rather than a symbiotic albeit uneven codependency — unleashed was a battle...

Much of what we think we know about the domestic slave trade and domestic traders of enslaved people in the United States is wrong. To the extent most Americans think about the slave trade at all, they usually envision traders as people so brutal tha...

"Humbled"? That's not what comes to mind when you watch the viral video of two tiny-town Virginia police officers harass, humiliate, power-play and pepper spray Army officer Caron Nazario after they pulled him over on a dark stretch of road for no ob...

On Thursday morning, Lee Elder's car will turn off Washington Road and make its way down Magnolia Lane to the clubhouse at Augusta National Golf Club. On the first tee, he will join legends Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player in striking ceremonial tee sho...

Delray Rawlins scored a credible 18 against Lancashire on the opening day of the LV= Insurance County Championship season at Emirates Old Trafford. The Bermuda all-rounder joined in-form Tom Haines at the wicket with Sussex under the gun at 40-4 aft...

A government backbencher pledged to work for unity and equality in his maiden speech in the House of Assembly. Jaché Adams, who was elected in Pembroke West in the General Election, highlighted Bermuda’s long history of racial inequality that was bol...

Sunday will mark the 42nd anniversary of the United Nations’ observance of “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”. Since 1979, the United Nations General Assembly has promoted global activities and awareness on this day, whi...

“The Royal Family is an institution rooted in colonialism, White supremacy and racism. The legacy is right there.” Shola Mos-Shagbamimu ( Good Morning Britain) “The British slave trade ended in 1807, and slavery in 1833. However, rac...

“It’s not what we do, but why we do it.” This is a paraphrase of the theme of a speech given by noted comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory which I heard as a freshman student at the University off Miami, in the late 1960s. That experience ...

It took many unsung, brave souls who toiled endlessly to help pave the way for what we would consider today as progress in a world still struggling over what constitutes proper values for living. Here in Bermuda that struggle was very much a part of...

For all the revelations in Oprah Winfrey's interview with Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the most striking was Meghan's claim that an unnamed member of the Royal Family raised concerns and questions about the skin colour of her the...