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Vol. 40 No. 51 • The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • insightnews.com
Biracial instructor accused of being racist for discussing race at MCTC
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Nelson Mandela at the James Madison Hotel in Washington, DC during a press briefing in 1991
By Harry Colbert, Jr. Contributing Writer Shannon Gibney is both Caucasian and African-American. But to a couple of white students at Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC), Gibney, a professor of English and African diaspora studies, is apparently not white enough – or maybe too Black. Two white male students accused the professor of racism during a recent classroom lecture. Gibney strongly denies the accusation and says she was simply pointing out the
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Ernestine Walton: Angelic warrior By Al McFarlane Editor-in-chief
The U.S. Revolution that supported Mandela By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Nearly three decades ago, a handful of prominent Black activists began organizing a movement that would eventually help break the back
of apartheid in South Africa and force the U.S. government and American companies to end their support of White minority rule on the continent. What was called the Free South Africa Movement began on Thanksgiving Day 1984, when then-U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Mary Frances Berry, TransAfrica executive director Randall Robinson,
then-D.C. Congressman Walter Fauntroy, and currentD.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (then a law professor at Georgetown University), were granted a meeting at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. The group called for an end to apartheid and the release of all political prisoners in South Africa. When their
demands were ignored, the activists staged a sit-in at the South African embassy on Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. All but Norton were arrested for trespassing, and their actions made national, then international news.
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Ernestine Shalema WaltonBrailsford was buried last Friday, the day after Nelson Mandela died. Friends and family mourned her loss and celebrated her life at midday funeral services at Trinity Tabernacle Church in North Minneapolis, where she was an active member.
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A tribute to Madiba Notes on the struggle By Professor Mahmoud El -Kati If I had my time over I would do the same again, so would any man who dares call himself a man. – Nelson Mandela
There are a lot of words that we can associate with the life, work and struggle of Nelson Mandela. Some of them come to mind immediately: Courage, endurance, faith. Love, forgiveness, redemption: the core of the Christian creed. Still more: patience, reason, confidence, empathy, truth, humility and grace. All of these words would be considered as virtues by most thoughtful people.
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Nelson Mandela timeline 1918 - July 18: Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela is born a member of the Madiba clan.” He is later given his English name, Nelson, by a teacher at his school
Nelson Mandela
1937 - Moves to Healdtown attending the Wesleyan college in Fort Beaufort
Fort Hare University: Studied for a B.A. and met his lifelong friend Oliver Tambo 1939 - Asked to leave Fort Hare due to his involvement in a boycott of the Students’ Representative Council against the university policies
Moves to Johannesburg to escape an arranged marriage and experiences the system of apartheid which forbade the black population to vote, travel without permission or own land Worked as a guard at a mine and then clerk at a law firm
Completed his degree via a correspondence course at the University of South Africa Studies Law at the University of Witwatersrand whilst living in Alexandra
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