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My earliest months of life were spent in a cotton sack, dragged along by my parents as they picked cotton in the fields of the large East Texas plantation where they toiled as sharecroppers in the 1940s. I learnt from them that my life would continue...

A seminar on restorative justice will be held on Friday to mark International Restorative Justice Week. The webinar will feature a panel of community leaders including senior magistrate Juan Wolffe, and Leroy Bean, the Gang Violence Reduction Coordi...

An antiracism charity said today that a print version of its book on black history was now available. Black History in Bermuda: Timeline Spanning Five Centuries was created by Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, with the support of the Human Ri...

While struggling to keep safe in New York City, an early Covid-19 hotspot in the US, Karee Luna lost her job. Then came the pain of “seeing people that looked like me being murdered on camera”. Uncertain as to what she should do, she started drawing....

People of all ages could benefit from a timeline of black history in Bermuda thanks to work carried out by an antiracism group, one of its leaders has said. Cordell Riley, the vice-president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, added it was hoped...

Last month, the White House issued an executive order to “combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating” in the Federal Government. It was referring, ironically, to the kind of discourse that supposedly plays out in an...

Later today, the Minister of Community Affairs and Sports, the Hon. Lovitta Foggo will participate in the premiere screening of Broadcasting Black, a locally produced film which explores the often overlooked contribution of black media to the success...

On Monday, September 28, the Minister of Community Affairs and Sports, the Hon. Lovitta Foggo, JP, MP, will host the premiere film screening of “Louis Rafael ‘Kid’ Corbin: Breaking Golf’s Colour Line in America, Canada, and Bermuda”. The 20-minute s...

From missionaries in Africa to slave owners in America and throughout the British Empire — how do we reconcile a history of slavery, oppression and segregation with the message of love, hope and salvation that Christianity promotes? This is a questi...

A police officer is to be charged with posting an offensive message on social media, it was revealed yesterday. A police spokesman said the Department of Public Prosecutions had approved a charge of “sending a grossly offensive message via a public e...

This is the first of a three-part essay describing Bermuda’s cultural crisis as it moves towards becoming a dysfunctional society Over the course of our short history, Bermudians have adopted ideas and values from a variety of sources....

A drive for a memorial to a pioneer black footballer whose career was stonewalled by racism has surpassed its goal this week with the help of Bermudian player Clyde Best. Jack Leslie, a friend of Mr Best’s, would have been the first black footballer ...