“A Manifesto for Social Change: How to Save South Africa” – by Moeletsi Mbeki and Nobantu Mbeki

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which…

The Importance of Publishing Black Writers: Elizabeth Nunez in “Poets & Writers” mag

It’s Martin Luther King Day, 2017. Yesterday I happened to pick up my copy of Poets & Writers magazine and came across a terrific piece by the novelist Elizabeth Nunez. Her theme is this: “How to get motivated to do one’s best work if one is … ignored by the gatekeepers of awards and reviews,…

Tribute to writers we lost in 2016

2016 was the year the music stopped. Leonard Cohen, Prince, David Bowie, George Michael – so many songs embedded in our culture, so many that’ll now never be written. It was also a year in which we lost three stellar playwrights: Edward Albee, Arnold Wesker, and Peter Shaffer, whose Equus is my favorite modern play…