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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 ...

Dear Sir, It was unfortunate that the recent Royal Gazette online article, published on June 23, entitled “Speaker draws race card on public registers”, used the terminology “race card” in the heading, even though it was not used anywhere in the arti...

A Progressive Labour Party backbencher has called for more to be done to address income inequality and racial disparity in Bermuda. Rolfe Commissiong told MPs on Friday that data from the 2016 Census highlighted that the gaps between blacks and white...

Clyde Best called on Bermudians to look each other in the eye and bridge their racial divide. Mr Best, the island’s famous footballer, said: “One thing my mother always told me — and I carry it in life today — if you treat people the way you want to ...

Owain Johnston-Barnes A ship’s crewman who used a racist word to police officers was fined $1,500 in Magistrates’ Court this week. Gronda Dobroslaw, from New Jersey, pleaded guilty to the use of offensive words in a public place in the early hours o...

Rule No 1 of successful litigation: find yourself a sympathetic plaintiff. The anti-affirmative action activists behind the present lawsuit charging Harvard University with racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions have certainly checked that...

Dear Sir, In response to the comments of Jonathan Reiss, first allow me to state that neither I, nor Ewart Brown, Eva Hodgson, Renée Webb, Lynne Winfield, or the late historians Cyril Packwood, Kenneth Robinson, Ira Philip or Walton Brown needed or n...

An anti-racism charity said international businesses should push for racial equity. Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda said companies should examine their policies, procedures, pay scales and benefits to create a level playing field. Curb added it ...

Dear Sir, The letter from Rolfe Commissiong in The Royal Gazette on June 12 reminded me of Jim Clark, the Montgomery County, Alabama, sheriff who resisted desegregation. Clark, according to the Montgomery Advertiser, never renounced his views, and i...

Dear Sir, In response to Valirie Marcia Akinstall, black Bermudians have never practised racism in this country. In fact, they have been the victims of racism and continue to be affected by its impact. The data does not lie. I would recommend that Ms...

Roseanne Barr’s case was easy. A no-brainer. Barr earned the title “racist” by tweeting this about Barack Obama’s former senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, an African-American: “muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby=vj”. A textbook exampl...