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Representing a diverse cross section of the community, CURB provides a safe place for real and respectful dialogue about racism and works for its elimination.

Email: [email protected]
Call: +1 441 707 1496 The challenges of facing race and racial issues in Bermuda is as important as it was in the volitile early days of Bermuda's civil rights movement starting in 1959. CURB's work continues as we seek to explore ways of uncovering ongoing systemic racial issues, issues that have existed in our history and still plague our society today.

30/10/2026

If you are good with numbers and you have been looking for a way to put that to use, we have a seat for you.

CURB is seeking a Treasurer to join our Board of Directors. The role is about financial oversight rather than day to day bookkeeping, which is handled separately. You would help Council understand where we stand, guide our budgets, support sound controls, and report to our members at the AGM.

We are looking for someone with a background in accounting, finance or financial management, and equally for integrity, sound judgement and a genuine willingness to engage with Bermuda’s racial history and the inequities that remain. Charity or nonprofit experience would be an asset.

This is a voluntary position, which is to say the work is given freely and it matters enormously. Good governance is what allows an organisation like ours to keep doing this work for another twenty years.

Send a brief statement about your experience and what draws you to our mission, along with your CV, to [email protected]

30/10/2026

CURB is hiring!

We are inviting proposals from experienced bookkeepers, accounting consultancies and independent financial consultants to handle our bookkeeping and financial reporting. The work runs to roughly 8 hours per month and covers record keeping, reconciliations, payroll support, regular reporting to Council, and assistance at year end.

What matters most to us is accuracy, discretion and reliability. Experience working with charities or nonprofits would be an asset, since the reporting requirements are their own particular thing.

If this sounds like your kind of work, send a proposal outlining your experience, the services you would provide, your availability and your fees to [email protected]

Please share this with anyone in your network who might be a fit.

27/10/2026

Anti-racism happens because of the people who keep showing up.

These faces belong to Bermudians who gave up a lunch hour to sit with hard questions at our last Lunch and Learn. The work lives in the decision to keep learning when nobody is requiring you to.

If you have been thinking about coming to a Lunch and Learn, consider this your invitation.

📱 707-1496
📧 [email protected]

20/10/2026

"We need to stop this culture of no in Bermuda and look at possibilities."

That is Stacey-Lee Williams, Executive Director of Citizens Uprooting Racism Bermuda, speaking at the inaugural Bermuda Black Film Weekend last Friday.

CURB was there because the opening film was about anti-racism, and that is our work. The festival ran October 15 to 18 at BUEI under the theme Connecting Voices Across the Diaspora, screening 30 films from more than 17 countries across four days.

Film decides whose history gets told, who gets to be the hero, and which stories the next generation grows up believing about themselves. For most of cinema's existence, Black Bermudians have watched other people make those decisions for us. An event like this shifts who holds the camera, which is the same work we do in schools, in community conversations, and in the Racial Justice Platform.

Congratulations to Dr. Dana Selassie, Founder and Festival Director, and the whole team on a first year that felt like a beginning, and to all seven award winners.

What can happen? Let's find out.

15/10/2026

CURB’s Theory of Change is the map behind everything we do, and we are opening it up over lunch. It traces the line from the problem we are confronting to the programmes we run, the outcomes we measure, and the Bermuda we are working toward. If you have ever wondered how community conversations, restorative practice training in schools, reparations education and policy advocacy all connect, this is the session that shows you the thread.

Come with questions. Lunch is on us.

October 21, 2026
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Suite 205, International Centre, 26 Bermudiana Road

Space is limited, so reach out to save your seat.

📱 707-1496
📧 [email protected]

13/10/2026

Dr. Eva Naomi Hodgson would have turned 102 this past Friday.

For more than six decades, Dr. Hodgson put race and racism on Bermuda's national agenda and kept it there. She taught at The Berkeley Institute, led the island's teachers through the merger of segregated unions, fought for every Bermudian's right to vote, and wrote the histories that help us understand where we come from.

She was a member of CURB's General Council and an honorary member of our organisation, and we continue to honour her through the Dr. Eva Naomi Hodgson Social Justice Awards.

Swipe through to learn more about her legacy, and share a memory of Dr. Hodgson in the comments.

28/09/2026

CURB's Theory of Change is the map behind everything we do, and we are opening it up over lunch. It traces the line from the problem we are confronting to the programmes we run, the outcomes we measure, and the Bermuda we are working toward. If you have ever wondered how community conversations, restorative practice training in schools, reparations education and policy advocacy all connect, this is the session that shows you the thread.

Come with questions. Lunch is on us.

October 5, 2026
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Suite 205, International Centre, 26 Bermudiana Road

Space is limited, so reach out to save your seat.

📱 707-1496
📧 [email protected]

24/09/2026

A gap this wide is not produced by individual choices. It is produced by a system doing exactly what it was built to do.

Black Bermudians account for a little over half the population and almost the entire prison population. CURB's Racial Justice Platform sets out how that came about, tracing racial disparity through every stage of the criminal legal process, including stops and searches, arrests, prosecution, plea negotiation, sentencing, and parole decisions.

The alternative already exists. Restorative justice focuses on repairing harm rather than simply punishing it, and in jurisdictions where it is used, victims recover better and reoffending drops.

22/09/2026

📢 Language for Liberation: BIGOT

A bigot is someone who is so committed to their own opinions and prejudices that they refuse to consider any other perspective, particularly when it comes to race, ethnicity, religion, or identity. Bigotry is not always loud or obvious. It can live quietly in assumptions, policies, and silence.

Examples:
→ Refusing to engage with evidence that challenges a prejudiced belief
→ Treating members of a group with contempt based on who they are
→ Dismissing someone’s lived experience because it does not match your own

Recognizing bigotry is the first step to refusing it.

15/09/2026

Vera Commissiong was one of the members of the Progressive Group, the organisers behind the 1959 Theatre Boycott who kept their identities secret for decades because the risk of reprisal was real.

Speaking on the sixtieth anniversary of the day Bermuda's cinemas reopened with integrated seating, she made the case that the achievement deserves formal national recognition, and noted that what they accomplished has lasted.

It is a fair point. The boycott ended segregation in Bermuda's public spaces in a matter of weeks, without violence, and it did so through ordinary collective action rather than legislation. Hotels, restaurants and other establishments followed the theatres, and the civil service began opening to Black Bermudians.

Several members of the Progressive Group have since been publicly recognised, including Izola Harvey, Florenz Maxwell and Erskine Simmons. Many Bermudians still could not name them.

The people who changed this country are not all in history books. Some of them are still here.

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P. O. Box 3056
Hamilton
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Opening Hours

Monday	09:30 - 16:30
Tuesday	09:30 - 04:30
Wednesday	09:30 - 16:30
Thursday	09:30 - 15:30
Friday	09:30 - 15:30

Telephone

+14417071496

Website

http://www.uprootingracism.info/

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