Apartheid

'Under African Skies': A Documentary Film Review

Zorianna Kit | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Graceland, Paul Simon, Paul Simon Graceland, Apartheid, Under African Skies, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, South Africa, Entertainment News
Zorianna Kit

The documentary pays tribute to the 25th anniversary of Graceland and chronicles Paul Simon's 2011 visit to South Africa since the '80s to reunite with the album's musicians.

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Nightmares Real And Imagined

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Photography, Video, South African Art, Slideexpand, Diane Arbus, Roger Ballen, German Art Exhibition, Apartheid, Marta Herford, Roger Ballen Photos, Arts News

South Africa-based photographer Roger Ballen got his start documenting impoverished South Africans who had been marginalized by the apartheid governme...

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Making Sacrifices When Change Is Inevitable

Allessandra Bradley-Burns | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Racism, Apartheid, Capitalism, Status Quo, Cuba, Ideological Beliefs, Latino Voices News
Allessandra Bradley-Burns

This is not a story about race, although it may seem so at first. I will leave that reflection for another day. Instead, it is about how a country chooses to embrace and create solutions when faced with something that has impacted each of us personally.

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South Africa's Passage Into Adulthood

Jayaseelan Naidoo | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Democracy, Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, World News
Jayaseelan Naidoo

How proudly we claimed our citizenship and how in the remotest villages of the world, the name of Mandela was whispered in awe. Our victory in South Africa was a triumph of our shared humanity.

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Bringing the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement Into 21st Century Classrooms

Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Black History, Civil Rights Movement, African-American History, African Americans, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Segregation, American History, Civil Rights Leaders, Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, Rosa Parks, South Africa, Education News
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

How do we encourage young people at home and abroad, in South Africa and now those young people heavily invested in the as yet unsettled Arab Spring, to "keep on keepin' on," as the footsoldiers of the Civil Rights Movement used to pledge?

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Ending LRA Violence: Now Is the Time

Jayaseelan Naidoo | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Lra, Kony 2012, South Africa, Apartheid, Arab Spring, Occupy Movement, Joseph Kony, Impact News
Jayaseelan Naidoo

I have read and discussed many analyses of the Kony 2012 phenomenon. I have watched the movie. I have sought out and met the team behind Invisible Chi...

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Applying the Lessons of South Africa Sanctions to Iran

Beheshteh Farshneshani | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Iran Sanctions, South Africa, Iran, Apartheid, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Beheshteh Farshneshani

In the case of South Africa under apartheid, there is significant evidence that sanctions actually were a motivating factor in the regime's decision to build nuclear weapons in the first place, rather than being the force behind its dismantlement.

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My Outing with Apartheid's Enforcers

James Peron | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: South Africa, Apartheid, Gay Rights, Individual Rights, Censorship, Apartheid Stories, Apartheid South Africa, Gay Voices News
James Peron

It was during the twilight years of the evil called apartheid that I moved to South Africa to fight for causes that I deeply felt. In my apartment looking out toward the clunky Voortrekker Monument, I started a gay newspaper.

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Biking Soweto

Jim Calio | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Apartheid, 1976 Soweto Riots, Lebo's Bicycle Tours, Bicycle Rentals, South African Entrepreneurs, South African Tourism, Johannesburg, Soweto, Slidepollajax, Travel News
Jim Calio

You can still see the dilapidated metal shacks that blight huge areas; they sit near elegant new homes, some worth millions.

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Think Locally, Occupy Globally: Our Fight Is the World's - and Vice Versa

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Global Change, Kandahar, Apartheid, Poverty, Global Poverty, South Africa, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The struggle goes on -- in Capetown and Durban and Pretoria, in Oakland and Manhattan and Los Angeles, in the hearts and minds of souls of people who fight despair and corruption in the cities, towns, and villages of the world.

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Contemporary Visions Of Africa

Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Yossi Milo Gallery, Hague Museum of Photography, Pieter Hugo, Apartheid, Slidewide, Race, Nollywood, Rwanda Genocide, South Africa, Africa, Genocide, Aids, Contemporary Africa, Contemporary Photography, This Must Be the Place, Pieter Hugo Photography, Wildlife, Arts News

So much contemporary photography these days is conceptual, self-referential and didactic, it becomes easy to forget the immense power of a human story...

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Apartheid Is Awful, But Who Is the Real Racist?

Lilac Sigan | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Apartheid, Hamas, Israel, Israel Apartheid Week, World News
Lilac Sigan

Here's an interesting question for you: if someone who's known for their very violent temper declared they hate you and would rather see you dead, wou...

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The Threads of Justice That Bind Us All

James Peron | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Helen Joseph, Apartheid, Nazi Germany, Gay Rights, Hans Scholl, Non-Violent Resistance, Sophie Scholl, White Rose Movement, White Rose Resistance Movement, Gay Voices News
James Peron

The words that Hans Scholl said as he was being led to guillotine should remain our inspiration: "Long live freedom." The fight for freedom is one fight, no matter who fights it, no matter where it is fought, no matter the circumstances.

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It's Israeli Apartheid Week -- Just Tell the Truth

Bradley Burston | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Apartheid, Norman Finkelstein, Mideast, Israel, Palestine, Democracy, United States, World News
Bradley Burston

All Americans deserve democracy and self-determination. So do both of the native peoples of the Holy Land, Palestinians and Israelis alike.

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Dependency Is Like a Walking Stick

Amy Russell | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: South Africa, Small Business, Poverty, walk4water, Charity, Clean Water, Dependency, Apartheid, Warehouse, Ngos, Cape Town, Charity: Water, Impact News
Amy Russell

I don't use a walking stick. I would become too dependent on one. When you learn to become dependent on something, not having that "thing" makes whatever task you are facing immensely harder, mentally.

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Why This Ad Is Causing Outrage In South Africa

washingtonpost.com | Danielle Cadet | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Democratic Alliance, South Africa, Apartheid, Democratic Alliance Party South Africa, South Africa Apartheid, Interracial Ad South Africa, Black Voices News

Although it's been almost two decades since apartheid ended, South Africans still feel the pangs of racial tension, and a poster depicting an interrac...

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The Effects Of South Africa's Apartheid Past

AP | DONNA BRYSON, | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: South Africa, Vingerkraal South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, South Africa Apartheid, Black Voices News

BELA BELA, South Africa — The shantytown called Vingerkraal seems trapped in South Africa's apartheid past. Tin shacks resemble those hurriedly ...

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Ignored Tragedies Remain in Wake of Giffords Shooting Anniversary

Gabriel Schivone | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Illegal Immigration, Prison Divestment, Migrant Workers, Apartheid, Arizona, Border Fence, Border Patrol, Mexican Immigrants, South Africa, Margaret Thatcher, Border, Illegal Immigrants, Borders, Gabrielle Giffords, US-Mexico Border, Border Security, Undocumented Immigrant, Arizona Immigration Law, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Border Militarization, Latino Voices News
Gabriel Schivone

This week as communities the world over justly mourn the victims of last year's Tucson's shootings, the violent death of young Torres--one case in a larger pattern--remain barely known.

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Gingrich Contradicts Israeli Government Position

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Palestine, Rabin, Thomas Friedman, Yitzhak Rabin, Oslo Accord, Invented People, Middle East, Apartheid, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Arafat, Newt Gingrich, Newt Gingrich Palestinians, World News
Daoud Kuttab

While Newt Gingrich's comments to a Jewish media outlet that Palestinians are an invented people was pretty bad, what was worse is what happened (or didn't happen) afterwards.

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Over Netanyahu's New Israel, the B.S. Light Is On

Bradley Burston | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Fascism, Politics, Middle East Protests, Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz, Bradley Burston, Israel, Apartheid, Danny Danon, World News
Bradley Burston

Like the apocryphal 50 words for snow, the Hebrew language is rich in synonyms for something south of honesty. But nothing in the ancient lexicon quite fits the Black Flagging campaign.

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Cricketer, Apartheid Foe Dies

AP | GERALD IMRAY | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: South Africa, South Africa Cricket, Basil D'Oliveira Dies, Cricket, England Cricket, Basil D'Oliveira Dead, Basil D'Oliveira Death, Apartheid, South Africa Apartheid, Basil D'Oliveira, Sports News

JOHANNESBURG — Basil D'Oliveira, the South African-born England cricketer who became a pivotal figure in the sport's battle against apartheid, d...

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Jason Cherkis

State Rep Rick Perry Voted Against Divesting In Apartheid-Era South Africa

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: South Africa, Presidential Race, Congress, Ronald Reagan, Austin, Texas Governor Rick Perry, ' Racism, Haskell County, Gop, Voting Record, Immigrants, Apartheid, 'Niggerhead, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Conservatives concerned about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Democratic past may have one less reason to worry. From Perry's past comes a...

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Celebrating A Legacy And Renewing A Promise

Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Interfaith-Center on Corporate Responsibility, Iccr, Apartheid, Shareholder Activist, Csr, Congo, Faith Consistent Investing, Christianity, Mossville, Religious Tolerance, Religion News
Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI

The combination of ICCR's commitment to respond to injustices and to hold corporations accountable to the social contract that is part of their charter makes them ever attuned to the responsibility of corporations.

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WATCH: Desmond Tutu Celebrates 80th Birthday

BBC, AP | Danielle Cadet | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: South Africa, Apartheid, Dalai Lama, Video, Desmond Tutu, Cape Town, Bono, Impact News

South Africa's "moral conscience," Archbishop Desmond Tutu, celebrated his 80th birthday Friday, BBC reports. The octogenarian, who helped end the...

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Will PEPFAR HIV Funding Be Flatlined by Budget Battles?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Obama Care, Uganda, Africa, Pepfar, Homeland, George W. Bush, United Nations, Pepfar-Aids-Funding, Thabo Mbeki, Apartheid, Tb, Senator Richard Luger, Barack Obama, South Africa, Human Rights, Glaxosmithkline, Peter Mugyenyi, Global Health Initiative, Clean Water, Usaid, Kruger Park, Masoyi, Thomas Lantos, Impact News
Georgianne Nienaber

Is Obama neglecting worldwide human rights issues, as critics charge?

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