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The American South is one of the most focused-on regions within the studies of slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Over time, the illusion that the American North and Canada have been “safe havens” for slaves to escape from the horrors of the South and tropical regions have been widely spread as fact. Studies on […]
Why Global Citizens Should Care South Africa’s Freedom Day recognises the first democratic election that took place in the country after apartheid, on April 27, 1994. Continuing to carry out Nelson Mandela’s legacy and live in a democracy has led the country on the path to achieving the United Nations’ Global Goal 16 for peace, […]
Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela delivers a policy statement in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Jan. 8, 1994. Mandela called on all South Africans to pledge themselves to peace. Later that year, Mandela became South Africa’s first Black president. Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela delivers a policy statement […]
That gathering (called the Turning Point Summit) follows a Gandhi King Mandela conference in South Africa last summer that convened youth activists, community leaders and others to advance new ways to apply the legacies of Nelson Mandela, Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. — notably their use of nonviolent resistance against injustices of colonization, […]
BRADEN FASTIER/Stuff Crowds at a one-day international against Bangladesh at Saxton Oval in 2016. Bangladesh is due to play the Black Caps at the oval in December. Authorities are confident the Black Caps and White Ferns long-awaited cricket internationals at Nelson’s Saxton Oval this summer will go ahead. The matches appeared to be in doubt […]
Traffic passes along Nelson Hackett Boulevard near Block Avenue on June 19, 2023. (Flyer photo/Todd Gill) Archibald Yell Boulevard was officially changed to Nelson Hackett Boulevard on Juneteenth. New street signs were installed honoring Hackett, an enslaved man who fled Fayetteville nearly 182 years ago in search of freedom in Canada. Hackett’s escape set off […]
FAYETTEVILLE — Nelson Hackett’s place in the city’s history was marked Friday at the downtown square about 180 years after he escaped slavery. Hackett was the first and last enslaved person to be extradited from Canada back to the United States. His journey set off an international discourse on extradition policy. A marker telling Hackett’s […]
Comment on this storyComment From the moment he saw her standing at a bus stop in the Black township of Soweto as he drove past in his two-tone, pastel-green Oldsmobile, Rolihlahla “Nelson” Mandela was besotted with Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela. Never mind that he was 38 and she just 20, or . . .
ATLANTA — A historically Black college honored President Russell M. Nelson here on Thursday night, awarding the Latter-day Saint leader a peace prize named for three legends of nonviolence — Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Morehouse College also unveiled side-by-side new portraits . . .
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