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 insurgent Ocasio-Cortez campaign upset a New York City Democratic machine congressman by registering 120,000 phone calls to voters.
This is Bruce Dixon from Black Agenda Report with the latest in our series about organizing, which for reference sake we’ll call the 200 series.
“Grand juries that routinely fail to indict killer cops become paragons of justice and virtue in King’s mind when manipulated to indict Russians.”
Miguel was a precocious six-year-old. And Maria, his mother, swore the Sun’s shine started in his green eyes. ‘Ojos Verde,’ she lovingly called him.
“When Trump met with the arch-enemy Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and didn’t declare war on Russia some of the loudest denunciations came from Black liberals.”
