Apartheid South Africa

World Mourns Passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Staff and Wire ReportDecember 26, 2021

Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner and civil rights activist who fought tirelessly to dismantle apartheid in South Africa, died on Sunday, Dec. 26 in Cape Town at the age of 90, announced South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Opinion

The Danger Of The “Ethno-Nationalist” State

Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire ContributorJanuary 9, 2020

Ethnic regimes were largely ignored in the mainstream media of the global North until the early 1990s, even when troubling events, such as genocide in Burundi, were unfolding. It was only with the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the Rwanda genocide (1994) that it became more than apparent that another wave of ethnic cleansing and ethno-nationalist regimes were unfolding.