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On July 17, congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis passed away at 80 on the same day as 95-year-old stalwart C.T. Vivian, the Reverend Martin Luther King’s favourite preacher. Both leave behind a legacy of social justice activism that played ...

Dear Sir, I may be out of my depth here, but, with all due respect, I believe our government has picked the wrong park to rename the Mary Prince Emancipation Park. It should be Bernard Park in Pembroke. I understand that Mary Prince was born in Devon...

Mary Prince, the enslaved Bermudian who gained her freedom, wrote a book and became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain, is to have a park renamed in her honour. Devonshire Bay Park on the South Shore will also get a monument to commemorat...

A suspended police officer could face a criminal investigation over a social-media post made just before a march in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Commissioner of Police said yesterday. Stephen Corbishley vowed not to “brush things u...

A deadly pandemic and deadly policing have brought us to a national moment of reckoning over race. Black-business lists are circulating on social media. Major corporations are taking stances on racial injustice. All because people have taken to the s...

The silver pick-up truck with a passenger-side rust spot passed the railroad tracks, then slowed down as it rolled past the crowd of demonstrators in this tiny downtown. “Black lives matter!” yelled a white woman in comfort capri pants — then she and...

An antiracism group has updated its racial justice platform. The document from Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda said the country should make changes to become “a more equitable and just society” alongside the organisation’s economic and legislati...

After spending weeks staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic, people reacted to the killing of George Floyd by spilling into the streets. As they have called attention to police violence, their desires and concerns have found a vehicle in num...

It should be no surprise that Donald Trump has chosen to centre his re-election campaign on appeals to racism and the demonisation of his opponents. After all, that is what he did from the opening of his 2016 run with his invocation of Mexican immig...

The recent Black Lives Matters Bermuda march, which was the largest and most comprehensive procession ever witnessed on the streets of Bermuda, was a momentous event. Not to capitalise on that achievement would be a missed opportunity. Although this...

Changes to the social studies curriculum in public schools were designed to make sure it was “grounded in a Bermudian context”, the education minister told the House of Assembly. Diallo Rabain highlighted work to focus on black history in schools. “I...

We wish to thank those who contributed to the Appreciation Celebration at City Hall last Thursday, marking the success of the 1959 Theatre Boycott. This includes Charles Gosling, the Mayor of Hamilton, and the entire Corporation of Hamilton for provi...