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 Danny Schechter
What’s the difference between a liberation movement and a band of terrorists? The simple answer . . . is point of view. Consider the African National Congress (ANC).
Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday at age 95, was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa from 1994-1999.
by Kumi Naidoo
Nelson Mandela was never really a prisoner, but a free man always, and now, forever. As a South African, a comrade in the struggle to liberate my homeland from the evil of apartheid and a citizen of the world, my heart is heavy today.
By Kiran Moodley
I am too young to remember February 11, 1990, the day when Nelson Mandela left Victor Verster Prison after spending a total of 27 years behind bars.
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…
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