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“Instead of asking what’s wrong with our black males, perhaps we need to ask what’s wrong with the systems that they must survive and thrive in.” This is the view of Ty-Ron Douglas, who grew up in Paget and now works as an assistant professor at the ...

Ty-Ron Douglas, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri, has spent much of his adult life researching black masculinity, black family and African Diaspora Studies. And now he h...

In a “disturbing” trend, rising numbers of young students from needy homes are coming to the classroom with their lunchboxes empty. Children at ten schools already get help with breafast each morning, courtesy of the Coalition for the Protection of C...

There are two men in custody for the murder of Patrick Dill. They may or may not be guilty of the crime, but the wider question is: what is Bermuda going to do about a problem that is eating away at our community. Not the black community. Not the whi...

Dear Sir, I have just read a letter to the editor in the April 19 edition of The Royal Gazette. I agree that Somerset indeed is very overgrown with weeds and littered with debris. My concern also is the bus stop near Kitchener Road, which has been ...

Michael Weeks, the Shadow Minister of Health and Community Affairs, has called for a crackdown on drinking among middle schoolers, pointing to permissive attitudes from adults and “subliminal seduction” from advertisements. With nearly one in four yo...

When several black celebrities refused to attend the Academy Awards this year, their protest was initially dismissed as a futile gesture. Yet their boycott succeeded in exposing Hollywood’s subtle but deeply ingrained form of racism. There’s a lesson...

The table of brotherhood envisioned by the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr will never become reality without making full use of the negotiating table to sort out political, racial or ethnic differences that have left so many large and...

Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has told MPs how she was “beaten for breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea” by her ex-husband. The Minister of Community, Culture and Sport spoke of her experiences as a young woman during a debate on setting up a joint select com...

Race relations group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda has described the police’s intention to use stop-and-search powers over the Hallowe’en period as “excessive and unreasonable”. The Bermuda Police Service announced that they would be enforce ...

A leading charity is urging the public not to spread footage of criminal activity online. Speaking yesterday, a Family Centre spokeswoman said: “As an organisation that aims to strengthen families and systems to create a healthier community for child...

North East Hamilton’s social problems must be tackled in tandem with promoting new businesses if it is to thrive again, according to Family Centre. The charity’s executive president, Martha Dismont, described the area as a “microcosm” of the challeng...