Who Will Become the Next President of South Africa? By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s governing social democratic political party once led by the late Nelson Mandela, faces perhaps its most contentious and controversial election yet. On Dec. 18, the party will vote for its next president, […]
Special Find in South Africa for African-American Museum
By Sadijah Wallace June 26, 2015 Sadijah Wallace is Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service. WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was the find that Lonnie Bunch III and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture had searched for so desperately – the remains of one of […]
To Africa and Back: Remembering Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s Career
By Ariele Vaccaro February 27, 2015 Charlayne Hunter-Gault Charlayne Hunter-Gault makes radio and television look easy. Some might call even her a natural. Since the 1960’s, her syrupy-sweet and silken vocals have been sliding along airwaves, carrying with them the daily news from Johannesburg, South Africa to the states. Hunter-Gault didn’t […]
Celebrate 20 Years of Freedom From Apartheid With the Musicians Who Fought Against It
By Julia Skulstad February 27, 2015 Year: 1950. Place: South Africa. Setting: Apartheid. It was a legal act that split the South African population into three classifications: white, colored or native, according to a study by The Library of Congress. In the nearly 45 years of strife, non-whites in South […]