According to a family spokesperson, Zoleka Mandela, the granddaughter of South Africa’s inaugural democratically elected President and global icon Nelson Mandela, succumbed to cancer at the age of 43.
“Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was part of the greatest generation that bequeathed us a liberated South Africa,” writes Pastor Kelvin Saul, a South African native, in an emotional tribute to the renowned theologian and activist.
Former ballerina, Judy Tyrus, visited Los Angeles to promote her book, “DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM: A HISTORY, A MOVEMENT, A CELEBRATION,” a book co-written by dancers, Tyrus and Paul Novosel, two longtime members of the dance company.
February 11: Nelson Mandela was released from prison after serving more than two and a half decades as a political prisoner, 1990
New works by Shaka King, Octavia Butler, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, and more.
Courageous co-founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, Steven Biko, was born, 1946.
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South African activist Winnie Mandela was born in Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1936
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The fabric of racism runs deep across the globe. Just this past week I read an article about a British company that offered an apology for their part in participating in the slave trade going back over 300 years.
South African politician and activist, Winnie Mandela, passed away in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018.
Nelson Mandela was released from prison after serving more than two and a half decades as a political prisoner, 1990.
“The majority of the people of the United States want better relations with Cuba, and that is the will that must prevail,” stated Chavis, who counted among the delegation of 30 American scholars who attended the 18th edition of the Series of Academic Conversations on Cuba in the Foreign Policy of the United States of America.
Courageous co-founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, Steven Biko, was born, 1946.
“It has been clear for some time that anatomically modern humans appeared in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. What has been long debated is the exact location of this emergence and subsequent dispersal of our earliest ancestors,” Hayes told reporters. “We’ve been able to pinpoint what we believe is our human homeland.”
Oliver Tambo, tireless fighter against apartheid in Azania (South Africa), and co-founder of the ANC, was born, 1917.
On this day in 1936, South African activist Winnie Mandela was born in Eastern Cape, South Africa.