The life of blues pioneer Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey and her song Black Bottom have been turned into a film. Bongani Madondo laments its anticlimax
The small fish get caught. Jails are used to control the poor and disorderly and deflect attention from the crimes of the rich and powerful.
The final part of Zamansele Nsele’s interview with Frank B Wilderson expands on some of the thinking in his latest book, ‘Afropessimism’
Angela Davis shared her lived experience of activism at Afropunk — and advice on how the arts can effect change
The lecture is taking place at the University of South Africa’s ZK Matthews Hall.
Her impending arrival has many South Africans excited, but she was not always a woman many openly adored.
Black feminist activist and theorist, writer and teacher Angela Davis will deliver the annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture at Unisa on Friday.
Black women’s hair is deeply politicised and education experts are mulling over the significance of the learner-led protests in Pretorias.
What do you get when you put 60 intellectuals from all over the world on a bus for 47 hours on a mission to think and unthink history?
In this 2007 interview with the M&G, Davis spoke about the repressive function of prisons and lessons for post-apartheid South Africa from the US.