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Steve McQueen’s ‘Western Deep’ is a counter memory for Black miners during South African Apartheid
by Donnie Moreland Steve McQueen’s Western Deep is a horror film. Though McQueen’s 2002 dual video installation (presented with Carib’s Leap) is, in form, video art, I feel it is possible to understand Western Deep as genre cinema. An exploration into the TauTona Mine Shaft No.3 of South Africa—also known as Western Deep—it is a […]
Moving to South Africa meant my race was different, but not the realities of racism
By Kim M Reynolds “So, you’re coloured?” I get asked this question on fairly regular basis in Cape Town, and it’s no longer a jarring one.
Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express expose decades of abuse by Southern Baptist leaders
A joint effort from the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express is chronicling the sexual abuse of over 700 people by Southern Baptist Church (SBC) leaders, stretching over 20 years.
Like South Carolina, Florida refuses to relocate inmates under Hurricane Michael
As Hurricane Michael makes it way through the Gulf Coast of Florida and North Carolina, evacuations are becoming more and more difficult for residents. But despite being located in mandatory evacuation zones, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) have not evacuated 15 state prisons.
South Carolina won’t relocate inmates in Hurricane Florence’s path
Despite a mandatory evacuation order in the area, South Carolina will not evacuate its 1,053 prisoners and staff at Ridgeland Correctional Institution in Jasper County as Hurricane Florence makes its way to the Southern East Coast. North Carolina and Virginia are relocating inmates in all evacuation zones.
White farmers raise alarms after South Africa begins redistributing land to Blacks
Last week, African National Congress (ANC) chairman Gwede Mantashe announced that South Africa’s white farming community could have it taken from them without compensation after some disputed the prices the government offered for the land. According to Express, now some experts are trying scare the government away from the plan by arguing it could lead […]
17 arrested in South Florida as pro-immigrant protests pick up steam
Last Wednesday, seventeen protestors were arrested in Miramar, Florida after they blocked the intersection at Southwest 29th Street and 145th Avenue for about eight hours. Wednesday’s demonstrations came two days after seven protestors were arrested after blocking the entrance to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Miramar.
Southern Baptists signal move away from conservatism with election of youngest president in 37 years
According to Jonathan Merritt of the Atlantic, Southern Baptists are attempting to shred their deep ties with the Republican Party and to re-engage with modern culture, as evidenced by their election of 45-year-old North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear as denomination president of the largest Protestant group in the U.S. Greear’s campaign video called for a […]
In South Fulton, Georgia, where Black women hold all top offices, can they set a new model for law enforcement?
A year after its creation, the city of South Fulton, Georgia has elected African American women at the top offices of all government departments. Now the fifth largest city in the state, South Fulton has a Black city public defender (Viveca Famber Powell), female chief of police (Sheila Rogers), court administrator (Lakesiya Cofield), chief judge (Tiffany […]
Seven killed in prison brawl in South Carolina, highlighting brutal conditions that breed violence
Seven prisoners at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina are dead following what is being described as a mass brawl. Seventeen were also injured following the melee that began around 7:15 pm Sunday night, and the facility was not secured until around eight hours later according to reports from Buzzfeed. The South Carolina […]
South African revolutionary leader Winnie Mandela dies at 81
On Monday, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, perhaps one of South Africa’s most beloved and most complex figures, passed away at the age of 81. Her passing allows for renewed perspectives on her life, which was propelled by revolutionary action during apartheid that would become later be marred in a series of scandals. As The Guardian reported, Mandela was frequently […]
Black people were held in slavery in the Deep South as late as the 1960’s
According to a series of interviews published by Vice, historian and genealogist Antionette Harrell has uncovered long-hidden cases of Black people who were still living as slaves a century past the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Harrell’s groundbreaking work has exposed cases in her home state of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Florida. Harrell first began […]