With His South Africa Tweet, Trump Became a Megaphone for a White-Supremacist Talking Point
Carol Schaeffer | thenation.com | 2018-08-24
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thenation.com/article/with-his-south-africa-tweet-trump-became-a-megaphone-for-a-white-supremacist-talking-point/

Ex-ambassador McFaul finds it 'weird' that RT reports on 'threats' to South African farmers
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-24
Former US envoy to Russia Michael McFaul said it was "weird" that RT was covering what he described as "threats" –in quotation marks– to white farmers in South Africa, retweeting a conspiracy linking RT's coverage to Fox News.
rt.com/usa/436794-mcfaul-south-africa-rt-fox/

The dangerous myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa
Justin Ward | splcenter.org | 2018-08-23
Narratives about a fictitious campaign to exterminate Afrikaners have the power to produce real violence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/08/23/dangerous-myth-white-genocide-south-africa

NC's Sole Black Woman Historical Commissioner: Confederate Statues Don't Belong at State Capitol
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-23
Just two days after protesters tore down the "Silent Sam" Confederate statue at the state's flagship school, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the state's Historical Commission voted 9 to 2 to keep Confederate monuments on the grounds of the state Capitol. We speak with the African-American woman who dissented in the vote to keep the three Confederate monuments in place at the state Capitol. She also voted against adding historical context to the monuments. Valerie Johnson is one of only two black members of the North Carolina Historical Commission and the only black woman. She is a professor of wome…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/23/ncs_sole_black_woman_historical_commissioner

Trump orders Pompeo to 'closely study' South Africa's land expropriation
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-23
US President Donald Trump has expressed concern over the fate of white farmers in South Africa, where the extremely controversial land redistribution reform might leave owners without their properties or any compensation.
rt.com/usa/436626-trump-south-africa-land-seizure/

State Dept warns South Africa of 'wrong path' amid land expropriation row
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-23
Expropriation of land without compensation "would not be a good thing" and would send South Africa "down the wrong path," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters amid a diplomatic row with Pretoria.
rt.com/usa/436694-south-africa-wrong-path-trump/

In DeVos's Home State, Students Push for their Right to Literacy
Rann Miller | progressive.org | 2018-08-17
Literacy has been, and continues to be, a critical component of African-American liberation.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/michigan-students-push-for-literacy-right-180817/