The End of South African Apartheid: An Interview with Dr. Athambile Masola aaihs.org/the-end-of-sou…

The two religions of Tanzania | Alasdair Howorth

Dar Es Salaam’s Kariakoo derby is fast becoming the continent’s biggest.
africasacountry.com/2024/04/the-tw…

Faith Ringgold Paved the Way

'The late artist fiercely reckoned with the status quo, leaving the art world better than she found it through a rich legacy of Black feminist activism and artmaking.'
hyperallergic.com/907730/faith-r…

Dirty Digits and “Pleasant Landscapes”: On Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirty-…

'The hallowed notion of a university as a bastion of discourse and learning does not and cannot exclude participation in contemporary debates, which is what students are being prepared to lead.'

Student Protest Is an Essential Part of Education
nytimes.com/2024/04/29/opi…

Academic Freedom Under Fire | Louis Menand

'Politicians despise it. Administrators aren’t defending it. But it made our universities great—and we’ll miss it when it’s gone.'
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Born free? | Sazi Bongwe

South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.
africasacountry.com/2024/04/born-f… via Africa Is a Country

Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik | Robin D. G. Kelley

'You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.'
bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

US Worker Movements and Direct Links Against Apartheid | Mattie Christine Webb aaihs.org/us-worker-move…

Everyone should be reading In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower Davarian L. Baldwin

Haiti on the Precipice | Pooja Bhatia

The chaos and violence in Haiti today result from years of political interference from abroad and democratic decay at home.
nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

New Legislation Would Expand Access to Disaster Relief, Provide Help With Titles for Large Number of Black Landowners
propublica.org/article/heirs-…

'Half a century ago, Amílcar Cabral asked a group of young filmmakers from Guinea-Bissau to bring his country’s independence struggle to the big screen. They’re now completing the project as a tribute to one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries.'
jacobin.com/2024/04/amilca…

Mdou Moctar’s Guitar Is a Screaming Siren Against Africa’s Colonial Legacy

“Funeral for Justice,” the musician from Niger’s album due next month, amps up the urgency in his work: “I want you to know how serious this is.”
nytimes.com/2024/04/22/art…

Professor Davarian L. Baldwin sat down with Left of Black three years ago, but how prescient was his analysis:

'In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities' (Bold Type Books)
youtube.com/watch?v=315pzD…

South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom

An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.
bostonreview.net/articles/repre… via Boston Review

An Enduring Race Tax

Black Americans remain the only racial group with a homeownership rate below 50 percent
nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/…

Biden is the graduation speaker for Martin Luther King’s alma mater. It’s a moral disaster | Jared Loggins

'The US president continues to support Israel in its onslaught on Gaza. Morehouse College’s most famous alumnus was anti-war'
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Buying back our things: An interview with Aziz Faarah

One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture. via Africa Is a Country
africasacountry.com/2024/04/buying…

The Flint water crisis is not over, ten years later

My family has lived in this city for generations. We still don’t have the power to shape our future.
theemancipator.org/2024/04/25/env…