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When Barack Obama won the United States presidential election in 2008, for the black Western experience it was monumental. Most of those born in the 1950s and earlier could not have imagined that such a phenomenon was possible in their lifetime. So t...

Truth and reconciliation efforts by an anti-racism group have won international praise. Now, Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda talks are to be used as a framework for discussions in Canada over the treatment of its First Nations peoples. The annou...

Racism, sexism, gang violence and problems in the education system will be discussed at a forum this weekend. Community activist Dennis Bean, who organised the event, hopes political representatives and members of the public will attend to hear possi...

When Bernard Demczuk does diversity and cultural awareness training with police, he gives a history lesson. Call it: why black people distrust police. He uses a timeline, starting with the role of slave catchers in the United States in 1706 to police...

It took a while, but Republicans have finally spoken out against Steve King’s offensive politics. After The New York Times quoted the Iowa lawmaker asking why concepts such as white supremacy and white nationalism are offensive, leading GOP politicia...

In the tiny Eastern Shore town of Greensboro, Maryland, black residents protested the hiring last year of a white police officer from Delaware who in 2013 had been recorded on his dashcam kicking a black man in the jaw as he lay handcuffed on the gro...

Trauma inflicted by racism has left a legacy of hidden pain, a campaigner has said. Lynn Winfield, president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, said that historic and recent incidents had left people “traumatised and stressed”, which surprised ...

An annual holiday should honour a national hero, a racial justice organisation urged last night. Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda said that the second day of Cup Match should be named Mary Prince Day. The organisation said that the designation ...

Dear Sir, It does not bother me in any way to explain to the people of Bermuda, or for that matter, the rest of the world, any of the experiences covering the life that I have witnessed and lived here. Most of those that I have lived among had to liv...

A 15-year-old schoolgirl has organised a youth conference to tackle controversial subjects with respect for different views. Katherine Tobin, a pupil at Somersfield Academy in Devonshire, said the conference would discuss topics such as race, gender ...

As we have learnt in Charlottesville, Pittsburgh and Orlando, hate is not about geography. The Clark brothers grew up in a dynamic and diverse neighbourhood in the nation’s capital, on a street with American flags and rainbow pride flags, pick-up tru...

The mother of Trayvon Martin, whose fatal shooting sparked the international Black Lives Matter movement, is in Bermuda providing hope to grieving mothers. Sybrina Fulton is speaking at a private three-day event organised by the family of 20-year-ol...