Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the fall of 1984, when I was a senior in high school in Washington, DC, the ...
Johannesburg — South African activist and anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko died almost five decades ago at the age of 30 in police custody. Family members and others who saw his body that day said he ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa will open a new inquest into the 1977 death in police custody of iconic anti-apartheid figure Steve Biko, state prosecutors said Wednesday. The inquest will be ...
On Sept. 1, 2025, an injured child and elderly man receive treatment at a hospital after an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. Credit: UNICEF/ Zahir On August 31, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck ...
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela's grandson has said Palestinians' lives under Israeli occupation are worse than anything Black South Africans experienced under apartheid, and urged the ...
It has now been four years since what Afghans call “the fall.” On August 15, 2021, Taliban fighters swept into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, hours after the country’s president fled, cementing their ...
Carter’s defeat in 1980 led to a policy turnaround. Ronald Reagan’s administration viewed South Africa’s liberation movements—the African National Congress (ANC) and the United Democratic Front ...
United Nations member States are formulating their positions on a proposed treaty to prevent and punish crimes against humanity, ahead of a January 2026 “preparatory committee” meeting that will lay ...
White South Africans invented a system of racial segregation in 1948. They called it apartheid, an Afrikaans word that means “separateness.” The purpose of the system was to keep South Africa’s ...
The 40-year arc of US relations with South Africa goes something like this: In 1984, President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that Desmond Tutu was “naive” for pressuring him — unsuccessfully — to ...
David Goldblatt, “Sunday morning: A not-white family living illegally in the ‘White’ group area of Hillbrow, Johannesburg,” 1978, printed later. (David Goldblatt/Yale University Art Gallery) Review by ...
The first group of white South African refugees arrived in the U.S. on Monday to be prioritized for resettlement by order of President Donald Trump — who made an exception as the refugee program ...
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