The successful push to change US policy toward South Africa provides a useful blueprint for our current moment. Democratic congressional candidate Ron Dellums, and his wife, Roscoe, left, clasp hands ...

Students erect 'shantytowns' at Johns Hopkins University in 1986 to call for divestment from South Africa. JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado via Getty Images In recent weeks, college campuses across the U.S ...

The term divestment has come up a lot over the past few weeks as pro-Palestinian students around the county demand that their universities divest their assets from companies doing business with Israel ...

The Forward brings you independent, nonprofit journalism with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis of the Middle East, campus conflicts, and more. Sign up for the free morning newsletter today. Some ...

At many institutions of higher education across the country, student protesters are calling for their schools to divest their endowments from companies that do business with Israel. This isn’t the ...

The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was occasionally too effective for its own good. On January 10th, 1970, Nelson ...

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 ...

There comes a time in the life of a people when the tyranny of their government becomes too much and they rebel. There comes a time when the quality of life is more important than life itself. That ...

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 ...