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The Tomorrows/Today exhibition brings together 10 artists who will be tomorrow’s leading names in art. An exhibition’s use of the title In and Out of Time is that of the poem of the same name by Maya Angelou, which speaks of everlasting love and suffering. Photo: Supplied

Cape Town Art Fair brings together 10 top artists of the future

The Tomorrows/Today exhibition includes tapestries by Talia Ramkilawan, sculptures by Githan Coopoo and Joanna Choumali’s embroidered images

I still reap the rewards of my mother’s prayers

So many strong black women are marginalised and forgotten — and their roles seen as expected and natural

Poet and author Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman to appear on US coin

The quarter has for the last 90 years shown the nation’s first president, George Washington, on one side and an eagle on the other.

As we like it: Awethu Hleli is one of the performers in the Market Theatre’s Chilling with the Bard: A Shakespeare Season. (Brett Rubin)

Women take centre stage in the Market Theatre’s Shakespeare season

The Market Theatre’s virtual offering, ‘Chilling with the Bard: A Shakespeare Season’, includes women performing traditionally male roles

While US president Donald Trump is cast as vile right-wing liar, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been heralded for his anti-Trump politics. (Reuters/Carlos Osori)

Strip away the blackface that causes so much pain

Canada’s leader, seen as an antidote America’s Donald Trump, is accused of concealing prejudice

Daring: Toni Morrison chose to ‘freely love Black lives with a searing, interrogating gaze’ and by so doing made her mark as one of the United States’s most important writers. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)
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The fraternity of lived genius

Author Toni Morrison’s words set high new standards for ethics

Equal Education’s co-founder Doron Isaacs (David Harrison/M&G)

Letters to the Editor: November 30 to December 6

Our readers write in about voting for the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, the Democratic Alliance and Equal Education

‘Not guilty’: Godwills Masimirembwa says he is innocent of all bribery accusations.

Maya Angelou, sex worker

The celebrated author felt no shame at being a prostitute, why do we?

Maya Angelou was a woman determined to go through life with ‘passion

Maya Angelou: Oh, to live like there’s no tomorrow

Author and poet Maya Angelou’s passing leaves us to contemplate – for us as well as her – how far daring can get you.

Poet and author Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou: A ‘warrior for equality, tolerance and peace’

The poet and author, who rose from the harshest of childhoods to become a force on the stage, screen and printed page, has died aged 86.

The Somalia-based al-Shebab group justified the attack as a retaliation for Kenyan troops taking part in an African Union operation in Somalia.

Poet, human rights activist Maya Angelou dead at 86

Celebrated author, poet and human rights activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86.

Maya Angelou’s cooking with words

Maya Angelou’s cooking with words

It’s a natural extension to my autobiography, says the author.