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Dear Mr Editor, I see that an anonymous contributor, who was very privileged in his ability to sign off as “Responsible Contributor” in the August 11 edition of your newspaper, took issue with my call for more racial diversity within our corporate en...

A milestone for the Island’s anti-apartheid campaign was recalled this week as Bermuda prepares to mark Nelson Mandela Day this Saturday. Three members of Bermuda’s disabled community braved a torrential storm in their wheelchairs to raise thousands ...

Dear Sir, I am a man first and have a relationship with God who happens to be black because my parents were black. I had no choice in the matter of skin hue and no regrets, either. My relationship with God through conversion took place many years ago...

Dear Sir, The outrage, sarcasm and cynicism expressed by members of the OBA, which basically represents the white community, whenever the PLP mentions Bermudian birthright is ingenious. It was the representatives of the white community who, in 1834,...

June 23, 2015 Dear Sir, I know in the Criminal Code, it is an offence to racially harass “a person” if it’s intended to cause distress, fear or alarm. I guess “a person” must also mean many people. So maybe it’s right to draw the following ...

As a child I spent most of my Sunday School years between Church of God on Angle Street and St Paul’s AME on Court Street. Every Sunday I was taught by strong Bermudian women and men such as Margurite Place, Cynthia Swan, Dale Butler and Fred Ingham....

Charleston — Maybe like me, Mr Editor, you are still trying to process and fathom what was by any standard an unspeakable crime, certainly, but most definitely a hate crime fuelled by racism. I feel not just for the victims, their families and frien...

The opening shots of the American Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter outside Charleston, South Carolina, in 1861 when troops of the secessionist Confederacy bombarded Union defenders. When the centenary of the outbreak of this fratricidal conflict —...

Few people around the world can be unaware of the deep, shattering pain in South Carolina, and throughout America, when in an act of pure hatred nine lives were lost at the hands of a 21-year-old white boy. So overcome with evil intent was this boy t...

Dear Sir, It is with deep sadness to hear that brethren attending a prayer meeting in an AME church in the US have been shot to death — nine people including the pastor. The circumstances of this heinous act of murder and hate gives rise to deep di...

Opposition MP Rolfe Commissiong has criticised The Royal Gazette’s editor Tim Hodgson for quoting John C Calhoun in a “racist” and “condescending” manner in an opinion piece. He highlighted the editorial, Exercising real people power, published on M...