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This late 19th century coloured lithograph tells many stories about the relationship between the protagonists, and the time, in which attitudes toward slavery changed for many.

The ‘master’ and the slave: an analysis

Professor Rafael Winkler unravels several philosophies of the age that lie behind an anti-slavery 19th century lithograph

A mural in Memphis depicting its musical legacy, and its complicated place in history as the site of Dr King’s assassination. (Photo: Fred de Vries)

The ghosts of Memphis: The good, the bad, the rock ’n soul

The city where Martin Luther King Jr took his last breath remains haunted by urban blight, blues and soul

The series’ strength is interviews with the family, both past and present, George Zimmerman’s own words on tape and interviews with the crack team of civil rights lawyers who quickly took on the case. (AFP)

New series spotlights Trayvon Martin killing

Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story premiered on the Paramount Network and BET on Monday, a docu-series bankrolled in part by rap mogul Jay Z

Trump blamed ‘both sides’ for the deadly violence in Charlottesville

Congress sends anti-white supremacist measure to Trump

Rights groups argue that hate crimes are rising in the United States and have called on the president to address ‘domestic terrorism’.

‘Neither of you turned out the way I hoped you would.’

Prezzes Zuma and Trump, I’m rigging out of wedlock

You can have the Guptas and the Ku Klux Klan. I’ll take Pravin Gordhan, Barack Obama and the kids.

Ku Klux Klan members were questioned but never indicted for the killing.

Human Rights Commission tells municipal official to apologise to white South Africans

Steve Naale was ordered to apologise after posting a photograph of the lynching of two black men by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1930s US on Facebook.

It was all fun and jubilation at the Mbombela Campus graduations when a total of 477 qualifications were awarded to the students

Complicit in a tide of hate and violence

South Africans are spewing vitriol on a website that is said to be stoking the fires of hate crimes.

Ku Klux Klan members were questioned but never indicted for the killing.

Conspiracy of silence on notorious 1946 mob lynching

The FBI is investigating the unresolved case of the Moore’s Ford Bridge murders of four African-Americans, allegedly by the Ku Klux Klan.

‘Apartheid state remains’

Andile Mngxitama’s critique of the HRC’s finding on blacks-only membership organisations has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Ferial Haffajee asked him why he is so angry.

Fatigue, racism threaten to knock Obama

Barack Obama was showing signs of campaign fatigue. Sitting on a picnic bench in a park on Pagoda Street, Indianapolis, in discussion with a group of 30 supporters, he told a…

Pastor puts Obama’s campaign in hot water

Barack Obama faced potential damage to his campaign on Thursday after television networks aired footage of sermons by the former pastor of Obama’s church likening the Democratic…

Thousands drawn to racial protest in Southern US

Though they came from far-flung places, the thousands of protesters who assembled in Jena, Louisiana, on Friday had this in common: they all wore black, and most were black. They…

Copy right or copy wrong?

Riazat Butt reports on the Kashmiri activist who inspired Islamic Rage Boy

Govt Aids nut linked to Ku Klux Klan

William Cooper, the author of <i>Behold a Pale Horse</i>, is closely connected to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).