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Israel kills dozens in Gaza airstrikes, escalates land theft and Palestinian expulsions
May 11, 2021At least 26 Palestinians have been killed—including nine children and women—by Israeli military forces in just the last 24 hours.
Read more‘Back of the Moon’: A Noirish apartheid-era South African film
March 3, 2021Director/co-writer and Oscar nominee Angus Gibson’s Back of the Moon is another example of why I love PAFF—the Pan African Virtual Film + Arts Festival. If not for this festival film buffs like moi probably would...
Read moreHarlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle
February 24, 2021The fight to save Black South Africans from starvation in 1946 foreshadowed the major struggles against apartheid that would define the decades to come.
Read moreSouth Africa’s Communists condemn possible release of Chris Hani’s assassin
November 12, 2020Hani's murder, coming just as apartheid was ending, was intended to spark a racial civil war in South Africa.
Read moreDenis Goldberg, comrade of Nelson Mandela and enemy of apartheid everywhere, dies
May 18, 2020Integrity and defense of the truth, whatever the personal cost, was a choice Denis Goldberg made from a tender age and stuck to throughout his life.
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