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The murder of George Floyd triggered widespread outcry in the United States, internationally and at home in Bermuda. And so it should. While we sit 700 miles apart across an ocean, the underpinnings of the social and racial injustice that exist in t...

The death of an unarmed black man at the hands of American police officers has sparked a surge of interest in an island antiracism group, its president said yesterday. Lynne Winfield, the chairwoman of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, said the o...

Protesters returned to the United States Consulate to campaign against the appointment of a controversial contributor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. About 50 people took part in the demonstration yesterday against Lee Rizzuto Jr as US Consu...

The island’s blue-collar union is backing rallies to protest at police brutality inflicted on black people in America. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, said he was “100 per cent” behind the demonstrations, which have spre...

The One Bermuda Alliance pledged to support the fight for social justice yesterday in the wake of the death of a black American at the hands of police officers. Craig Cannonier, the Opposition leader, said the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Mi...

The iconic video footage of Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin sitting with his knee placed on the neck of the handcuffed George Floyd for eight minutes and 46 seconds has sparked a global response. The scene is hauntingly surreal: Chauvin sitting ...

Systemic racism in Bermuda and around the world must not be swept under the rug, the Premier warned yesterday. David Burt reminded that, while the issue of race has been put in the international spotlight in the wake of the death of black American Ge...

Bermuda’s Commissioner of Police said he was “appalled and saddened” by the killing of a black man by a police officer in the United States. Stephen Corbishley posted the “from the heart” message on Facebook during the weekend about the killing of G...

What could I or anyone write about Eva Hodgson that would truly do her justice? I never played marbles with her, as we say in Bermuda. After all, she could give me at least three decades. But we had developed a relationship from the Nineties onward t...

Educator, author and activist Eva Hodgson is best known as an antiracism campaigner. Letters to newspaper editors she has written since the 1960s and publications she has authored have had race relations as their overriding theme. Her outspokenness ...

The officers and members of the Progressive Labour Party are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Bermuda’s most prolific warriors in the fight for civil rights and racial equality, the indomitable Eva Naomi Hodgson, PhD, OBE. Dr Hodgson ...

It is often said that a prophet has no honour in his own country. So it can be said of Eva Hodgson. Although we met and talked on occasion, I did not know Dr Hodgson well. The last time I saw her was in July 2018 at the Bermuda Industrial Union head...