John Nichols
December 06, 2013
Beloved former South African president Nelson Mandela left a legacy of union support and solidarity with organized labor.
by Philip Gourevitch
At Robben Island Prison, a former leper colony and animal-quarantine station off Cape Town, Nelson Mandela—Prisoner 466/64—was kept by South Africa’s white-supremacist regime for eighteen years in an eight-foot-by-seven-foot cell.
By Jeremy Daw
Eighty years ago, Congress made one of its smartest decisions in the entire history of US drug policy and brought Prohibition to an end.
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 Greg Mitchell
When I was senior editor at Crawdaddy—for most of the 1970s—I convinced Gil Scott-Heron to become an occasional columnist.
By ZAKES MDA
I REMEMBER Nelson Mandela. No, not the universally adored elder statesman who successfully resisted the megalomania that comes with deification…
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.
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The final installment of Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ latest PBS series, “Many Rivers To Cross” was nothing to write home about.
By David Weigel
Every major news event, no matter how sad or epochal, is transformed by the power of social media into a way to carp about politics. Some among us want people to stop doing that.
Nelson Mandela passed away on Dec. 5, 2013 in Johannesburg at the age of 95. Earlier this year, during Mandela’s illness, Eve Fairbanks prepared this assesment of his life and legacy.
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