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The picture with this article includes Izola Harvey, Progressive Group member; Kingsley Tweed, honouree and Ottiwell Simmons, former president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, posing at the conclusion of the event organised by Dale Butler and Rotimi...

“I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination.” — Nelson Mandela Ordinarily, I make a conscious effort not respond to my critics when I put out my opinions for public consumption. An occupational hazard of pla...

Now that our Caribbean governments have launched a serious effort to secure the payment of reparations for the tremendous damage inflicted on the people of Africa and the African diaspora during the centuries of European-orchestrated slave trade and ...

Between 1987 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for the murders of 17 Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latino men and boys in Wisconsin. Eleven victims were African-American, and most murders were committed on Milwaukee’s predominantly Black Norths...

During the recent D23 convention in Anaheim, the Walt Disney Company released a teaser trailer for the upcoming live-action remake of its classic animated film The Little Mermaid. In it, Halle Bailey, playing the movie’s star mermaid, Ariel, stares u...

A Bermudian artist has been left “honoured” after painting a high-profile mural celebrating a team of Black university athletes who took a landmark stand against racism more than 50 years ago. Dubbed the “Syracuse 8” by the media of the day – even th...

In late August, the only Black starting player on Duke University's women’s volleyball team reported that an opposing fan hurled racist taunts, including slurs, during a match at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. According to social-media acco...

Support continues to run high in Bermuda for antiracism organisations to work towards racial justice, according to a survey of residents by one of the island’s leading campaign groups. Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda reported 83 per cent fou...

On Thursday, Queen Elizabeth II died at 96. An outpouring of sympathy from world leaders emphasised her dutiful service and stabilising presence. President Joe Biden issued a statement that commemorated her as a “source of comfort and pride for gener...

In her long reign, the Queen witnessed the 180-degree transformation of Bermuda from a racist and insular economic backwater into a progressive, cosmopolitan powerhouse, punching above its weight in the world. For 350 years, Bermuda had seen chattel ...

“Oft as we can we’ll come back again Here oft you will find us For the Green and the Gold we’ll ever uphold” Approximately 125 years ago, on Court Street at a building by the name of Samaritan’s Lodge, 12 children walked through the do...

I do my PhD research in a shared office on campus and I very seldom see another face. And this is not good because the central task of an academic department is fostering a good research culture and stimulating interdisciplinary conversations. The ot...