Revolution
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In South Africa, when expectations collapse the poor revolt against the downtrodden foreigners
Revolutions are seeded not just in hunger, but in the fear of decline, particularly among those who thought they had escaped it
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A tribute to Nina Simone
The legendary jazz musician would be turning 90 this week
The things we lost in the fire
The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want
‘Before Night Falls’: Reinaldo Arenas breaks down (in) Fidel Castro’s Cuba
Reinaldo Arenas’s memoir reveals the contradiction of a revolutionary society ruled by an autocrat
Online allyship: a broken game of do like I do
The idea of displaying solidarity by posting a black square on Instagram hijacked the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag with a performative display of allyship
Angela Davis on ‘How to be a revolutionary’
Angela Davis shared her lived experience of activism at Afropunk — and advice on how the arts can effect change