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David Mabuza’s address to the Covie community near Plettenberg Bay on 30 April 2021 was about as presidential as he gets. The deputy president’s leadership over the last three years has been characterised by absence and silence but on Friday, while handing over 764,000 hectares of land to the Western Cape community, Mabuza spoke extensively on the history of dispossession and the link between land reform and freedom. “Our government places emphasis on social compacting and working together across political parties, between government and its people, as well as between government and the...

Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Chicago. He had enrolled in the 10th grade in Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post office, and he cared for medical-research animals at what was then Michael Reese Hospital, and he sold insurance policies door-to-door on the South Side. Also, he started to write books, and in 1940, his novel “Native Son” ...

CHICAGO — Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Chicago. He had enrolled in the 10th grade in Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post office, and he cared for medical-research animals at what was then Michael Reese Hospital, and he sold insurance policies door-to-door on the South Side. Also, he started to write books, and in 1940, his novel “Native Son” was a sensation. As one critic famously presumed, ...

Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Chicago. He had enrolled in the 10th grade in Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post office, and he cared for medical-research animals at what was then Michael Reese Hospital, and he sold insurance policies door-to-door on the South Side. Also, he started to write books, and in 1940, his novel “Native Son” ...

Richard Wright’s novel of police brutality: The most relevant book of 2021 was written 80 years ago Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune © Keystone/Hulton Archive/Hulton Archive/TNS Writer Richard Wright sitting at a table drinking a glass of wine, January 1951. CHICAGO — Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Chicago. He had enrolled in the 10th grade in Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post o...