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Taking Account of Race: A Philanthropic Imperative
President Obama’s election has unquestionably transformed discussions of race in the United States. At the recent Black Entertainment Television Honors Awards, Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina declared that now that an African-American man holds the most powerful position in the world, “Every child has…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Same Sex Marriage: Culture, Law and Advocacy on Three Continents
Achieving full legal equality for gay men and lesbians has never been easy, in any part of the world. Yet in an increasingly globalised media, legal and economic environment, what happens in one country can provide valuable lessons for another. We get an unusual opportunity…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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SOUTH AFRICA: Poor marks for education
CAPE TOWN, 11 May 2011 (IRIN) – Instead of providing much needed opportunities, South Africa’s ailing education system is keeping children from poor households at the back of the job queue and locking families into poverty for another generation. By the age of eight, school…
Author: IRIN News
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In South Africa, rape is linked to manhood
Original Source by CELEAN JACOBSON Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls’ work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man. So he took the only other course considered “manly” in his rural South African village: He raped…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Paeans of pain-filled hope return
Wrenching cantata based on TRC testimony takes to the stage again, writes Robyn Sassen By Robyn Sassen When a brief season of composer Philip Miller’s REwind was announced in Johannesburg three years ago, the news spread like wildfire – and the performances were all sold…
Author: Sunday Times
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Another Letter from South Africa: A Young Man’s Journey Out of Poverty Lifts Others Along the Way
Themba Mngomezulu stood on a hillside on his family’s land, in Ingwavuma, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, not far from the border of Swaziland, and told us his story. Not far away, his grandmother sat on a straw mat on the floor of her one-room…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity FAQ
If you have questions about the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity program, hopefully they’ve been answered below. Why did Atlantic and its partners launch the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity? What is anti-black racism? Why does it matter? What is the Atlantic Fellows for Racial…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Out of the Box: Queer Youth in South Africa Today
Atlantic Philanthropies just completed a study of queer youth in South Africa today. Seventeen years after the Constitution outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation, the study explores if democracy has brought greater tolerance and celebration of diversity for today’s young LGBTIs. Marian Nell and Janet Shapiro authored…
Author: African Activist
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Night and a Day in Queenstown Posted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South Africa As Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two…
Author: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
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Xenophobia 'excluded from dialogue on racism'
Original Source University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Racism against black foreigners from African countries is often excluded from discourse about racism in South Africa, the First Apartheid Archive Conference heard on Thursday. “… in the studies of racism…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online