Demonstrators march at Harvard in 1978 against the Harvard Corp.'s refusal to divest from stocks in companies operating in South Africa. (MSG) The environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben ...

The successful push to change US policy toward South Africa provides a useful blueprint for our current moment. Democratic congressional candidate Ron Dellums, and his wife, Roscoe, left, clasp hands ...

This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Olympics stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the ...

The 50-year struggle against apartheid — arguably the greatest global social movement of the 20 th century — ended only about two decades ago, and historians and journalists are still parsing its ...

While lying in a hospital bed in London recovering from a car bombing that cost him his right arm and sight in one eye in 1988, Albie Sachs received a letter. “Don’t worry, comrade Albie, we will ...

Amid the mass death of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s easy to forget how close we came to war with Iran in 2020. Former President Donald Trump ordered the extrajudicial assassination of Iranian ...

The speeches at Oakland City Hall last week were punctuated by drums. Vukani Mawethu, a group specializing in anti-apartheid songs, performed. Deputy Mayor Sandré Swanson recalled that unforgettable ...

We remember the human rights activist and lawyer Randall Robinson, the founder of TransAfrica, who died Friday at the age of 81. Robinson played a critical role in the anti-apartheid movement in the ...

Many of the thousands of protesters who marched in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland this past week are not old enough to have seen earlier social causes championed on those same streets. The ...

Hundreds gathered at Sproul Plaza on Saturday afternoon for a memorial service celebrating the life and work of Nelson Mandela, a former president of South Africa and a leader of the anti-apartheid ...

Filmmaker Connie Field took some time out to answer a few questions about her film Have You Heard From Johannesburg, and discuss the parallels between the anti-apartheid movement and present-day ...