Apartheid

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Donald Trump, theGrio.com
May 12, 2025
President Trump is being accused by critics of escalating a global white supremacist agenda after granting white Afrikaners refugee status.
Ernest Cole, Ernest Cole photographer, Who is Ernest Cole?, Ernest Cole anti-apartheid photography, Ernest Cole South Africa, theGrio.com
November 22, 2024
Photographer Ernest Cole receives a stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck’s “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” narrated by LaKeith Stanfield.
Peter Magubane, theGrio.com
January 2, 2024
Peter Magubane, a South African photographer who captured 40 years of apartheid, dies at age 91.
South African students, theGrio.com
November 13, 2023
The lack of government-funded school transportation has exacerbated myriad dangers for thousands of South African children...
theGRIO.com
October 16, 2023
Human Rights Watch and other human rights organizations are calling on the Biden-Harris Administration to condemn Israel for war crimes.
HIV infections women and girls
April 24, 2023
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a ruling that the “gratuitous” public display of the country's old…
November 30, 2022
The convicted killer of South African anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani has been stabbed in prison, two days before he was…
July 18, 2022
Jessie Duarte, long-serving deputy secretary-general of South Africa's ruling African National Congress party, died Sunday of cancer.
May 13, 2022
On Thursday, the comedian shared a tribute to his late elder, featuring a silent video of the two posing for…
January 2, 2022
The late Desmond Tutu's remains underwent a water-based process called “aquamation,” a “greener” alternative to traditional cremation.
Desmond Tutu
December 29, 2021
In a season when we have lost so many Black leaders, Desmond Tutu has left us in body at age…
December 27, 2021
The late archbishop's activism continues to reverberate among many who weren't yet born when Desmond Tutu fought apartheid.
Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu
December 26, 2021
Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop has died
Arthur Ashe
December 3, 2021
Ashe’s story is an inspiration, even if you don’t care about tennis, and Citizen Ashe is a fascinating look at…
F.W. de Klerk thegrio.com
November 24, 2021
Yoliswa Cele–Khumalo Hadebe writes of her time in captivity and escaping the regime of former South African leader F.W. de…
FW de Klerk
November 11, 2021
Touré writes that De Klerk was no hero who was a leader of the most racist governments in modern history,…
May 15, 2021
Now is the time for President Biden to speak out against apartheid in Israel and end U.S. support of state…
November 21, 2020
The Economic Freedom Fighters party has organized protests in response to a students’ prom they claim that only white kids…
Cyril Ramaphosa AP thegrio.com
June 3, 2019
A former South African police officer will face trial over the 1971 killing of an anti-apartheid activist after a court…
January 10, 2019
Parents of students at a South African school were incensed when they saw a picture showing their Black children sitting…