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.”
This is a story about the ways in which the Maroons positioned themselves within a powerful and expanding empire.
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.”
Zimbabwe’s new “open for business” posture apparently means, “Come and take all of our resources.”
Located 40 miles south of Atlanta, LaGrange uses local utilities as a form of social control.
US-backed jihadists have been getting away with pinning their attacks on the Syrian government since 2013.
