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“I’m just different.” That is what 23-year-old Elijah McClain told police in Aurora, Colorado, after they stopped him as he walked home from a convenience store last August because someone saw the young black man and reported a suspicious person. Tho...

Over the past month, protests across the country, and even the world, have erupted in response to the death of George Floyd by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. While the protests have focused on police violence, the issues of racism ar...

June is designated as PTSD Awareness Month, which concentrates on the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder among people who suffer mentally, physically and/or emotionally from a past trauma. It is a modern diagnosis commonly associated with comba...

Up ye mighty race, accomplish what you will — Marcus Mosiah Garvey Last week on national television, the Premier, David Burt, stated a few harsh truths about our historic and present-day, systemic racial issues. Not surprisingly, some folks got upse...

As statues come down everywhere and right-of-centre pundits waggle their fingers and say they told us so, it is important to try to draw distinctions. After all, when you topple George Washington from his pedestal — which many argued would never happ...

The historical seasons have changed, and once again, America’s trees are bearing a strange and bitter fruit — dead black bodies. In less than one month, six black people have been found hanging from trees, in California, Georgia, New York, Oregon and...

The thought of justice and the idea of equal justice under the law have once again raised the attention of lawmakers in the United States, this time with added awareness and apprehension spread around the world. Ultimately it comes around to the cour...

Whoever put the noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage gave Nascar and all the rest of us permission to quit our romance with the rebel South, to finally leave that doomed relationship, with its phoney harlot beauty. The stock car drivers who marched on th...

An opinion-editorial was written by an incarcerated, young black male last week, providing his experience and calling out embedded systemic racism in the judicial system. His opinion speaks specifically to the unfairness of the jury-selection process...

Bermuda must tackle systemic racism in order to confront a plague of violence, a counsellor affiliated with Social Justice Bermuda said. Juanae Crockwell was part of a group of hundreds that marched through Hamilton on June 13 in support of the globa...

Book recommendations about race and racism in America have rapidly circulated on social media and news outlets as protests against anti-black violence continue for the third week. Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk A...

Campaigners have called for the area around Hamilton City Hall to be renamed Freedom Square as a tribute to those who battled to end segregation. Imagine Bermuda, a community group, and Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda have launched a petition to...