The Divide was first published in 2017. In the years since, many people have written to me, or approached me during public events, to share the impact it had on them. I am always grateful for this.

On Monday, June 16, 2008, a front page article by Faye Whitbeck in the International Falls Daily Journal gave an overview of what was to become a long-running series of weekly columns which I have ...

Debates about reparations and forms of restorative justice are related to the legacies of Britain's colonial past. Since the abolition of slavery in 1833, former enslaved peoples and their descendants ...