The US acted as midwife to South Africa’s apartheid system, said Dr Gerald Horne, author of “US Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.” Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and possibly Black America’s most prolific living political writer, said the US Carnegie Corporation formulated “the blueprint” for South Africa’s apartheid system, imposed in 1948 as “a combination of neo-slavery and Jim Crow on steroids.”
The 1950s calypso craze provided black performers with new occasions to intervene in the public sphere as well as new creative and financial opportunities.
Ecuador’s president appears to be using Assange as a bargaining chip for debt relief.
The still-chocolate city bids farewell to its first Black mayor.
Over a thousand gathered in Johannesburg to attend the Launch Congress of the party which seeks to build socialism in South Africa
Washington’s generations-long blockade and aggressions against Cuba have now been extended to Venezuela, all in violation of international law.
