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Further rounds of “community conversations” exploring race have been launched by the group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda. The first series of truth and reconciliation talks proved “extremely successful” this spring, according to Curb president...

Dear Sir, When it comes down to dissociating oneself from racism, I don’t know who came up with the stupid, idiotic term that one should not see or recognise colour, especially when identifying one’s own ethnicity from everyone else. One needs to und...

Congress returns to work this week for the first time since blood was shed in Charlottesville. In the ensuing weeks, our country has been roiled by historic storms and deadly floods, rank dehumanisation and pointed bigotry, deepening fears of yet mor...

Many in America and around the world are in a state of shock over the dreadful event in Charlottesville, Virginia. Members of extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, stormed into that city with cries of blatant racism, claiming that non-whites ...

A message of love and understanding in Bermudian April Branco’s painting Resting Place has won international recognition after it became a symbol for anti-white supremacist protesters Virginia last weekend. Her image was used by Mark Martin to repres...

Dear Sir, I have lived in Bermuda all of my life and have never known any other country anywhere else in this world in the same way that I have known Bermuda — or at least that’s what I think and believe that I do. I am one of those people who could ...

Dear Sir, The op-ed by Monica Jones (Royal Gazette, July 15) was interesting and no doubt well-intentioned. But it would have had more validity if it had been more balanced. Her obvious self-induced blindness reinforces the walls she writes about rat...

By now, most have seen the jarring dash cam video of police officer Jeronimo Yanez shooting Philando Castile as Castile calmly reached for his licence. Just as shocking, a jury acquitted Yanez. The verdict, in the eyes of many, was just one more piec...

Senator Jeff Baron has condemned a post on his sister’s Facebook page, insisting that he did not support discriminatory or racist comments. In a statement issued yesterday morning, the Minister of National Security said he was outraged by the post t...

Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda has released its 2017 Racial Justice Platform, urging political candidates to take action which will bring about “greater racial justice and economic equity” in Bermuda. In a statement released this afternoon, Cur...

Theatre boycott heroine and author Florenz Maxwell is hosting a book launch for her newly released Girlcott this month. Ms Maxwell, who was one of the members of the Progressive Group that was instrumental organising the boycott and paving the way ...