Nelson Mandela

Gregg Reese  |   OW Staff Writer
Mar 17 2011

Ties to Africa and Farrakhan cited

  On Saturday, March 12, an American naval battle group anchored around the aircraft carrier Enterprise gathered in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of civil-war-torn Libya, ready to provide either humanitarian aid or military intervention as the drama in that polarizing nation unfolds.

Congresswoman Karen Bass  |   OW Guest Contributor
Mar 10 2011

As Congress proposes cuts in aid

Twenty-one years ago, I was active in the movement to end apartheid and free Nelson Mandela.

While the apartheid regime was crumbling, the crack epidemic was beginning in South Los Angeles and inner city communities around the nation. I made a conscious decision to turn my activism away from Southern Africa and dedicate my time to addressing the devastation taking place at home. The Community Coalition, which plays such a vital role in our neighborhoods today, was born out of that crisis.

Aug 19 2010

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

For more than 40 years in South Africa, Apartheid was the rule of the land, establishing racial segregation, Black African oppression, and tyrannical rule by the White minority in a country that was never theirs.

Jan 13 2005

fighting a war other than apartheid

Nelson Mandela is now fighting a war other than apartheid, which left him imprisoned for nearly three decades. In trying to wage a global effort against HIV and AIDS,
Mandela, the world-revered former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient,
lost a battle he didn’t expect.
Mandela have been tackling the problem of HIV/AIDS, which has ravaged the African continent.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.