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Bermuda’s battle for civil rights and racial justice is on the right track, former attorney-general Phil Perinchief said yesterday. Mr Perinchief said: “We are maturing as a democracy.” He was speaking as the island marked the 50th anniversary of the...

He was on the front line as history was made and his reports will ensure the events that shaped modern Bermuda will never be forgotten. Ira Philip’s articles for The Bermuda Recorder on the developments that helped change the face of the island are p...

Women are leading the charge to bridge the racial divide in Bermuda. Lynn Winfield, president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, said on average three quarters of those at the group’s truth and reconciliation sessions were women. Ms Winfield ad...

If a tree falls in the Amazon but there is no one there to hear, does it make a sound? This weighty philosophical question has bedevilled philosophers for years. However, in the context of this piece, there is no need to weigh this question. Because ...

A while ago, my spirit became weary as a thought crossed my mind that much of the efforts for the greater portion of my life to heal the divisions and to break down the walls that keep our society lingering in separation may have been like bashing on...

The next session of Truth and Reconciliation talks will begin in two weeks. Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda said its Winter community conversations will finish next week, and the Spring conversations will start the week after. A spokeswoman said...

A plaque for the African Diaspora Heritage Trail will be unveiled at the Bermudian Heritage Museum. The commemoration will happen as part of International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade activities late...

On March 2, 1955, a 15-year-old high school student named Claudette Colvin was arrested on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat. This happened nine months before Rosa Parks’s famous arrest in the same circumstances. That un...

On February 14, the front page of The Royal Gazette carried an attention-grabbing headline — “Famous: PLP must reach out to whites”. Not quite a heart-warming Valentine’s message, yet that headline managed to attract 326 comments. If anyone needed fu...

Dear Sir, As I read your opinion by Vic Ball in The Royal Gazette online today (January 15), my major critique is where were your opinions on race, the responsibility of political parties and the primary objections and responsibility of the governmen...

Volunteers are needed to sustain “community conversations” from the group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, which reported a successful first year. Feedback from the race talks are “clearly showing that we are on the right track”, according to Cu...

A newly sworn-in mayor in one of the heartland’s largest metro areas revived a criticism of the national anthem that was often overlooked during the NFL protests. At his swearing-in, Melvin Carter III, the first black mayor of St Paul, Minnesota, arg...