New lens on slavery’s toxic legacy
With the release last month of the Oscar-nominated Selma, the highly acclaimed first-ever mainstream Martin Luther King biopic, starring Nigeria’s David Oyelowo and Oprah Winfrey, …
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How the 1964 Civil Rights Act cost Black America
Who could have foreseen that the passing of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 – which outlawed racial segregation – would spark an exodus …
When lynch mobs roamed free in the USA
The sanitisation of history appears to be gaining currency in the USA as people forget that 43 years before Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have …
Marching to freedom’s dream
Having just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, where Nobel laureate Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a …