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 ...

Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict won't come when activists want. But a new vote by Standing Together shows we've learned to be ready.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Academic’s new book tells how the Dunnes Stores strike of 1984–87 led directly to a government ban on the importation of ...