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important, america first committee in 1940-41, was almost a million members in size. it was lead by industrialists, by members of congress, punitive spokesman was lindbergh, it was made up of all kinds of people, patriotic americans, communist, aint semites, they had one thing in mind, keep america out of the european war. you see, they had just fought world war i. the country was going through a horrific economic cycle, depression. they didnt want to fight any more. the argument was b...

January 27 marked the birthday of Tsietsi Mashinini, who in terms of South African history and politics, symbolises the idea of black power.

One of the significant benefits of an Afrikan-centred study of European thought and behaviour is the fundamental discovery that “politics is the continuation of war by other means”.

China owns it they are exploiting people, using child labor, a key ingredient in the batteries of the electric cars is cobalt. 26 pounds of it goes into every battery it a very expensive commodity. it is 71 thousand a ton. there may be alternatives some day, cobalt is the mainstay, they are exploiting kids we had two afrikans testify, i could not are more clear how the kids are being abused, they get very sick on, they retrieve the product. it goes to china, almost exclusively for

Parks sometimes and you got to use geckos running around on the wall. for me, that is sad. because this is not a holiday. we walk into the hotel room and everybody comes in. and we wait for c.j. to phone. i felt nervous because i didnt know whether c.j. would realize that this is a trap. >> hello? >> theres a police officer sitting next to me on the bed. her head is close to mine so she can hear what c.j. is saying. he told me to start speaking in afrikans. maybe at that point c.j. got nervous o...

He is the giant of the 20th and 21st century. as president obama said and others, the world has changed. he was able to come out of the prison after 27 years, knolls a prison, but as a part of the majority of the population of south africa that was being oppressed for decades by the minority. he was able to transform from being a lawyer to a political activist, to being a rebel and a warrior and a prisoner to a really consummate politician, who was able to see the big picture and came out and un...

I was very much impressed with him at that first meeting. >> and his close associates said that throughout his time in prison as the years went on, he knew that you had to get into the mindset, you had to understand the mindset of the white man. he obviously spoke afrikans, he learned all those languages and he knew you as well as he knew himself. >> its absolutely true. i would agree with that. i wasnt there to hear it myself, but from what we know of nelson mandela, i can understand that and i...

People come here to hear word about whats going on. this is the center of the anti-apartheid protests. and to go into the history a little it bit now, back in 1976 was the scene of youth uprisings in the schools when the students were protesting against the introduction of afrikans, the language of the why minority. that was one of the major, major turning points in the anti-apartheid movement. for so many other reasons, its so important. its also poernt, president obama coming here to the unive...