A new television series looks at the life and death of Emmet Till in the 1950s and the bravery of his mother
The talented novelist Nthikeng Mohlele’s debut short-story collection lacks the vitality that makes short stories magical
The Democratic Alliance leader rebuking cricketer Quinton de Kock would be this election season’s greatest triumph
Born in Zambia and raised in Botswana, the songwriter’s career is coming into full bloom in South Africa
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu’s response to Waiting for Godot is a crystal-clear directive: stop killing us
The collaborative album Indaba Is, facilitated by Siyabonga Mthembu and Thandi Ntuli, is greater than the sum of its parts
The aid worker allegedly called his security guard a ‘slave’
Musicians break genre boundaries and, through the lyrics about the Los Angeles police officer who killed cops, express black anger
In 1961, Bill Russell led his fellow Boston Celtics in refusing to play in an NBA game in protest of systemic racism. It happened again on Wednesday.
How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa…
Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter
Tshegofatso Mathe spoke to people in the South African business world about structural racism in our economy, and what must be done to overcome it
Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice
The final part of Zamansele Nsele’s interview with Frank B Wilderson expands on some of the thinking in his latest book, ‘Afropessimism’
The #Black Lives Matter, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements show that democracy cannot happen without decolonisation
We need to dismantle the unequal systems we have upheld in Africa. Divesting from missionary tours is a good place to start
Responses to terrible inequality, climate change and the Covid-19 economic crisis will decide this
Frank B Wilderson discusses ‘Afropessimism’, his memoir that analyses structural violence
In this memoir, the first Somali-American woman elected to the US Congress describes how she got there
Dynamic grassroots movements are especially needed in authoritarian states where institutions are fundamentally broken
A global police state – the military arm for capital interests – marginalises, controls and subjugates millions of people considered surplus humanity
We condemn the killing of a black Americans, yet women, African foreigners and queer people are regularly abused and killed in SA
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the raw realities of South Africa’s under-resourced public schools
The idea of displaying solidarity by posting a black square on Instagram hijacked the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag with a performative display of allyship
The youth of today can learn from the youth of 1976, who rose up and rejected the Bantu education system
As long as white people refuse to confront their racism they remain robbed of the opportunity to fully understand it and its many manifestations
In South Africa, police brutality and violence affect black, working- class lives in particular. We must dismantle this systemic oppression
Everyone is affected by pollution, but it is the poorest — black people — who paid and still pay the price
Those on the street say that the usual abuse has intensified under the lockdown
As Africa mourns George Floyd, we must look in the mirror and address police brutality on our own continent
Known as a hub of revolution during the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta has once again been at the forefront of police brutality protests in the US
The police brutality protests through the eyes of an African in Brooklyn, New York