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.”
Mass Black incarceration didn’t just happen; it was engineered at the highest levels of US government.
Although Russiagate has fizzled, US imperialism has entered a new level of instability, unable to compete with the rising powers of the East and facing a crisis of legitimacy at home, said
Anthony Monteiro: US cannot compete with China; Eternity Martis: Black Canadians receive inferior medical care; Anne Moraa: Comics speak the peoples la
Stevie Stevenson, serving a long term in the California prison system says the state is putting law books out of reach of the incarcerated population.
For the past five years, Kenyan artist and intellectual Anne Moraa has helped develop comic books and magazines aimed at empowering young girls.
