
By William Boardman
“Through its provisions, Public Act 436 establishes a new form of local government, previously unknown within the United States or the State of Michigan…
IBW21 (The Institute of the Black World 21st Century) is committed to enhancing the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. and globally to achieve cultural, social, economic and political equality and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people.
By William Boardman
“Through its provisions, Public Act 436 establishes a new form of local government, previously unknown within the United States or the State of Michigan…
By J. George M. Walters-Sleyon
There is a generation that does not know its history. Encumbered by wealth, poverty, sociopolitical, economic and racial marginalization, they have forgotten the legacies of their ancestors and their narrative.
By Greg Mitchell
When I was senior editor at Crawdaddy—for most of the 1970s—I convinced Gil Scott-Heron to become an occasional columnist.
On Thursday, December, 5th, the world began to mourn the passing of the legendary South African revolutionary Nelson Mandela.
By Qaanitah Hunter and Estelle Ellis
JOHANNESBURG/PORT ELIZABETH,- As the world mourns the passing of South Africa’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, his close friend and political stalwart Tokyo Sexwale says much needs to be done to honour his legacy.
By Chris Kromm
In 1994, at a speech celebrating his inauguration as the first black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela glanced over to Coretta Scott King and echoed the words of her slain husband’s address at the March on Washington more than 30 years earlier: “Free at last, free at last!”
By ZAKES MDA
I REMEMBER Nelson Mandela. No, not the universally adored elder statesman who successfully resisted the megalomania that comes with deification…
By DeWayne Wickham, USATODAY
When Nelson Mandela arrived in New York City four months after his 1990 release from detention after 27 years in a South African prison, he was widely – and wrongly – seen as just the leader of an African struggle for self-determination. But as I quickly learned, he was much more than that.
Mr. Nelson Mandela.
President Nelson Mandela.
Madiba.
Tata.
By By Louis Freedberg,
As a teenager growing up in Cape Town in the 1960s, a favorite weekend activity was climbing to the top of Table Mountain, the glorious promontory at the end of the African continent.
By Max Fisher
Nelson Mandela was already 45 years old when, on April 20, 1964, he gave the defining speech of the anti-Apartheid movement, from the dock of a Pretoria courtroom.
By BILL BERKOWITZ
Last night, it was difficult to cut through the fog of reaction from current day conservatives to the death of Nelson Mandela.
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