Blind to their own biases and insulated from communities they do not encounter or understand, journalists and editors feel entitled to make judgments about what is and what is not racism. Hence the decision by Ian Murray, executive director of the Society of Editors, to publish a statement that unilaterally exonerated the entire UK press of all charges of racism.
Encyclopaedia Africana
March 10, 2021
DESMOND TUTU
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
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March 6, 2021
WINNIE MADIKIZELA MANDELA
“All what we fought for is not what is going on right now. It is a tragedy that he lived and saw what was happening, we cannot pretend like South Africa is not in crisis, our country is in crisis and anyone who cannot see that is just bluffing themselves.”
– 2017
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February 7, 2021
CLIP: Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa, 1994
4 years after his release from prison after serving 27 years, Nelson became President of South Africa
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December 11, 2020
10.01.2021:VIRTUAL Black History Children Workshop: Nelson Mandela
BRING YOUR CHILDREN TO LEARN ABOUT BLACK HISTORY NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS!!
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September 2, 2020
DEDAN KIMATHI
n 2007, Kimathi was officially recognized and honored as a national hero by the then Kenyan government. On the anniversary on the day he was executed, a bronze statue of Kimathi was unveiled in Nairobi city centre. Kimathi, clad in military regalia, holds a riffle on one hand and a dagger on the other, symbolizing the last weapons he held in his struggle.
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August 29, 2020
STEVE BIKO
“He inspired our youth to shed themselves of the sense of inferiority they were born into as a result of more than three hundred years of white rule.”
Encyclopaedia Africana I
August 7, 2020
IDRIS ELBA
In March 2020, Elba was among the first public figures to announce that he had tested positive for the coronavirus.