Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Demonstrators march at Harvard in 1978 against the Harvard Corp.'s refusal to divest from stocks in companies operating in South ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students erect 'shantytowns' at Johns Hopkins University in 1986 to call for divestment from South Africa. JHU Sheridan ...

On July 3, 1986, Los Angeles marked a historic moment for the city and the international community, going beyond a statement ...

We've heard the term divestment a lot these past few weeks. Pro-Palestinian students around the country are demanding that their universities divest their assets from companies doing business with ...

FILE PHOTO: A poster of Nelson Mandela is seen in the crowd during a memorial service for the deceased South African anti-apartheid leader in Soweto, South Africa in 2013. (Graeme Williams/Action ...

Some years ago, I traveled to South Africa with a group of Israelis to study the anti-apartheid movement. On our first morning, our guide posed a question: Why did apartheid end? We offered the ...

PART I -- GLOBALISATION OF ANTI-APARTHEID -- Humanitarians, Human Rights and Anti-Apartheid; Rob Skinner -- 'We the people of the United Nations': The UN and the Global campaigns against Apartheid; ...

In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own ...

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. In the fall of 1984, when I was a senior in high school in Washington, DC, the protests at the ...

College campuses can sometimes plant the seeds for dramatic shifts in public policy. This was most evident in the 1980s, when students across the country protested apartheid in South Africa. By ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Pedro Noguera, dean of the University of Southern California School of Education, about his role leading student protests at UC Berkeley against Apartheid in the 1980s.