Anti-apartheid cleric Trevor Huddleston, centre, with South African liberation struggle icons Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in 1991.
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Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
The rebellious French generals Edmond Jouhaud, Raoul Salan, and Maurice Challe (from left to right) leave the General Delegation in April 23, 1961 in Algiers, after taking power (with General Zeller) to oppose the Algerian policy of General de Gaulle. The Public Salvation Committee intended to preserve French Algeria was formed on 13 May 1958 with General Massu as its president.
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In May 1958 General de Gaulle returned to power and established the Fifth Republic. Yet despite the monumental changes of that time, many in France today still don’t understand what really happened.
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It’s not far-fetched to suspect that the common understanding of the idea of “mother tongues” in South Africa is coloured by outside influences.
Uganda has some of the most severe anti-gay laws in the world.
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Of the 72 countries that still criminalise gay sex today, at least 38 of them were once subject to British colonialism.
The spectacular Wellington Caves are a tourist attraction - and a fossil site.
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The 19th-century British anatomist Richard Owen downplayed the role of colonial contributors and largely ignored the importance of Aboriginal testimony and knowledge in describing the marsupial lion.
The statue of Captain Cook in St Kilda, Melbourne, was painted pink on January 25 2018.
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The federal government will spend nearly $50 million over four years to commemorate Captain Cook’s first landing. But some have questioned the spend.
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A furious Twitter row between a TV personality and South African politician about slavery sheds light on the failings of arguments in 280 characters.
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AI seems able to answer questions at the heart of humanitarianism – questions such as who we should save, and how to be effective at scale.
Thomas Johnson’s illustration of his banana plant from The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes.
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The story of Britain’s favourite tropical fruit (and how it came to dominate the world).
Anti-cholera inoculation in Calcutta in 1894.
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A long read on how science’s dark imperial past still shapes research today – and what to do about it.
South African liberation struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died at the age of 81.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s political power stemmed from the visceral connection that she was able to make between the lives of the oppressed black people, and her own.
Limpopo Province, South Africa. Who owned this land?
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In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
July 4th in a Dallas suburb.
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Belief in American exceptionalism isn’t just at odds with history and facts. It undermines the country’s capacity to address looming challenges.
Detail from William Barak, Figures in possum skin cloaks, 1898, pencil, wash, charcoal solution, gouache and earth pigments on paper, 57.0 x 88.8 cm (image and sheet)
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Colony at the NGV pairs colonial art with Indigenous responses, in an effort to create dialogue about Australia’s history.
Colten Boushie’s uncle Alvin Baptiste raises an eagle’s wing as demonstrators gather outside of the courthouse in North Battleford, Sask., on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018.
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In the acquittal of Gerald Stanley we must remember how one-sided systematic remembering in Canada has been. We must remember how Canadian-state law created the myth of the homesteader as Wheat King.
Health impacts from anti-Black racism and anti-Indigeneity are often dismissed or kept silent by health scholars and health care workers.
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A health and human rights researcher, therapist and professor explains why racial justice is a public health issue.
South African President Jacob Zuma and Tobeka Madiba, his fifth wife, celebrate their traditional wedding with a dance.
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Both South Africa’s courts and its legislature have failed to do their bit in creating a culturally diverse society.
South Africa has been dubbed “the rape capital of the world”.
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South Africa has tended to prioritise race relations over gender relations since formal apartheid ended.
A scene from Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine’s film Quetta-Damghan, almost certainly the only colour footage of the Indian Long Range Squadron in action. The film recently has been digitised by the Royal Geographical Society and the British Film Institute.
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More than 100 historic expeditionary and travel films have been digitised recently by the Royal Geographical Society and the British Film Institute.
The painting Group of Natives of Tasmania, 1859, by Robert Dowling.
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That colonial wars were fought in Tasmania is irrefutable. More controversially, surviving evidence suggests the British enacted genocidal policies against the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.