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Whilst some have the luxury to forget – or at least attempt to – others pass it down through intergenerational trauma because they cannot, and will not, forget.

The Paris-based DJ shares an eerie mixtape featuring 100 BPM electro, New Orleans bounce, Congolese and Ugandan rap, and more

Gentle Battle is the debut solo exhibition of Paris based artist, DJ, producer and performer Christelle Oyiri (b.France, 1992). Weaving together forgo

Racial discrimination in South Africa is ongoing, decades after apartheid. These new-age leaders are standing for justice, taking the baton of Biko, Sisulu, Mandela, and Tutu.

Maneo Mohale just won the 2020 Glenna Luschei Award for African Poetry for their debut book. They speak to Eyewitness News about healing, love and why poetry will always be relevant.

weekly newspaper. Amy Jephta doesn’t like the limelight. The playwright-turned-screenwriter and now film director and TV showrunner shuns being fussed over to the extent that she refuses to let the publicist carry a chair outside for her when she’s being interviewed on set. “On the red carpet, I like the actors to be interviewed. That’s part of their job. I’ll stand back. I don’t feel I need to cultivate a particular brand for myself. I just need to know that people like my work an...

by Paul Haeder / March 16th, 2021 The final report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) concludes that the project has been ‘the most successful anti-poverty movement in history’. Two key claims underpin this narrative: that global poverty has been cut in half, and global hunger nearly in half, since 1990. This good-news narrative has been touted by the United Nations and has been widely repeated by the media. But closer inspection reveals that the UN’s claims about poverty and hung...

>> eric: obamas fairness speech. 40 years ago, milton friedman gave is speech. he gave a speech about fairness. what is fair. life isnt fair, people. there is no reason one guy can hit a baseball, albert pujols, earn $20 million a year and another guy strikes out. >> kimberly: he is a great guy and does a lot for charity. >> bob: the university of chicago -- >> kimberly: here is the deal. what i love about obama, he can be different people. abraham lincoln, j.f.k., then administration began to c...