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The last week in February was an ugly, humiliating one for South Africa. A country once considered a jewel of democracy on the African continent has been gripped by a wave of xenophobic violence. In a matter of days, more than 30 stores belonging to ...

Hurt people hurt people. It is with this in mind that Maxim Alkon approaches people experiencing trauma or stress. Residents struggling with racism-related stress are his current focus. The 38-year-old has created a series of workshops to help them h...

February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conferenc...

Blacks have “a history of our fortitude being tested”, a packed hall heard last night from visiting lecturer Kenneth Hardy. “Keep going,” was his advice. A professor of family therapy from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Dr Hardy heads home today ...

Racism has overtaken crime as one of the biggest issues facing Bermuda, according to a poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. A surge of voters named racism as their top concern in the Global Research survey this month: 16 per cent, up from 7 per ce...

February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history The Brixton Riots, described as the first serious riots of the 20th ...

Reconciliation is the process of establishing and maintaining a mutually respectful relationship between peoples previously separated by oppression and violence. For that to happen, there has to be a raised awareness of that oppressive past; a proces...

Truth and reconciliation conversations will begin across the island in February, racial justice organisation Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda announced yesterday. Trained mediators will run the multiple group sessions of up to 20 participants, wh...

Families can be mysterious, intense and, more often than not, indecipherable to the outside world. Most families seem to endure similar gyrations and upheavals. There are moments of failure and success. There is admirable endurance. To study any indi...

The campaign group Curb has declared its shock that riot police were deployed against “non-violent, unarmed individuals” during last Friday’s protest outside the House of Assembly. “We further deplore the indiscriminate use of pepper spray, the first...

Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Lou Angelou ... despite having the odds stacked against them, they all transformed the lives of others As it goes with legends, we have read about them and heard glowing stories about them but far too often, we...

Problematic students are being allowed to slip through the cracks of the education system, leading them down antisocial paths in later life, Lieutenant-Colonel Eddie Lamb, the Commissioner of Corrections, has claimed. Speaking yesterday at the Intern...