Posts Tagged ‘Apartheid’
Midwest Nice Apartheid with Reggie Jackson
Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of the upcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid, for a 4-part series on Milwaukee’s history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity. Presented by the Milwaukee Public Library and America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
Read MoreMidwest Nice Apartheid with Reggie Jackson
Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of the upcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid, for a 4-part series on Milwaukee’s history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity. Presented by the Milwaukee Public Library and America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
Read MoreMidwest Nice Apartheid with Reggie Jackson
Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of the upcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid, for a 4-part series on Milwaukee’s history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity. Presented by the Milwaukee Public Library and America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
Read MoreMidwest Nice Apartheid with Reggie Jackson
Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of the upcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid, for a 4-part series on Milwaukee’s history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity. Presented by the Milwaukee Public Library and America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
Read MoreIt’s 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa’s celebrations are set against growing discontent
Growing political unrest marred South Africa’s celebrations of thirty years free from apartheid on Freedom Day.
Read More‘To fight with my camera, to kill apartheid’: Peter Magubane – a life in pictures
We remember photographer Peter Magubane, who used his artistry against the racist apartheid in South Africa.
Read MoreABHM Book Club presents Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
ABHM Book Club is reading A Long Walk to Freedom: the Autobiography of Nelson Mandela during June and July. Sign up for the free Book Club meetings here and learn more about the world-touring exhibition about Mandela currently at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter forces South African sports to face racist past
The Black Lives Matter movement has forced South African sports to take a hard look at its post-apartheid history and the dissension between former teammates in a county still trying to heal from its racist past.
Read MoreAlex La Guma: The Greatest Novelist Whose Name You’ve Never Heard Before
Lindsay Johns, a writer for The Root, discusses Alex La Guma, a South Africa novelist and an activist in the liberation struggle, and his remarkable work of literature, which she describes “articulates a distinct world view”. She explains the relevance of his novels in this age and why they should be read.
Read MoreFor South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Generation, Discontent Grows
The “born frees” have begun to question their country’s leadership amid rampant unemployment, limited opportunity and entrenched political corruption.
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