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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...

A film charting the fatal shooting that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement is to screen at the Bermuda Industrial Union this evening. The screening was organised by the family of 20-year-old Bermudian Jahcari Francis who was shot dead on July 1...

Young people’s questions at a weekend forum on the history of racism in Bermuda showed “an absolute thirst” for understanding, one of the event’s organisers said. Lisa Reed, executive officer of the Human Rights Commission, said: “It’s the recogniti...

A World Conference being held in Detroit, Michigan from October 24th — 26th will find out how Bermuda is using Restorative Practices to address historical and contemporary harm from past oppression and abuse. The World Conference under the auspices...

My first lesson in racial discrimination happened at the maximum-security prison at Calipatria, California. An older Mexican dude with the signature handlebar moustache told me in a Hollywood whisper: “Hey, homie, we don’t associate with llantas [tyr...

With great optimism, I attended a few sessions of the Dive In Festival this week. It has been heartening to see the insurance and reinsurance sectors take on Diversity and Inclusion work. As most people who have worked in the D&I space will attest, ...

Bermuda would be in denial, if we fail to accept that because of decades of entrenched racial bias, which emanated from our history of institutionalised segregation after centuries of slavery, and based on skin colour, that every election has that st...

The call took Timothy Durham by surprise. An old pal in New Jersey, Randy Roller, wanted his input about something so sensitive that he wouldn’t talk about it over the phone. “I go to Philadelphia and New York frequently for rest and relaxation, but ...

Dear Sir, It does not matter how educated or well learnt a person may be, they will never reach or lay claim to the pinnacle of perfection. Why, Mr Editor? Because there is no end to knowledge, nor will we live long enough to know or be able to acqui...

Fifty-one years ago, Willie Horton drove towards the smoke. His Detroit Tigers team-mates went home, as they were advised, and stayed away from the rioting. Horton couldn’t. His city was burning. He didn’t even change out of his uniform. Now 75, he p...

Veteran civil rights campaigner Eva Hodgson admitted that she regretted not identifying white people who are featured in her book Second Class Citizens, First Class Men, during an evening to celebrate her life and work. The race advocate, historian ...