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Hall of Nations. Through media and images, America’s Voices Against Apartheid profiles celebrities, citizens, and organizations who challenged South Africa’s apartheid regime despite resistance from their own government. Among the profiled are 2020 Kennedy Center Honoree Debbie Allen, singer Harry Belafonte, tennis player Arthur Ashe, and ...
WASHINGTON — This fall, from September 14 to November 5, 2023, the Kennedy Center's Department of International Programming and the Howard University Republic of South Africa Project/ Sister States of Maryland, Inc. will present the groundbreaking exhibition, America's Voices Against Apartheid, in the Hall of Nations. This U.S. opening of the ...
About the Episode. This star-studded 90-minute performance documentary offers an overview of the Kennedy Center’s weekend-long American Voices festival, which was created and hosted by Renée ...
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Oct 27, 2023 · The Kennedy Center exhibit “America’s Voices Against Apartheid” pays tribute to Americans who protested apartheid. (Eden Harris/The Washington Informer) On Apr. 27, 1994, McDougall stood beside Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist and South Africa’s first president from 1994 to 1999, as he voted for the first time in the country ...
“America’s Voices Against Apartheid” is an initiative of the National African American Drug Policy Coalition, in collaboration with the Howard University Republic of South Africa Project (HURSAP), the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and other U.S. and South African partners, that analyzes the important and complex involvement of American citizens and organizations in the global anti ...
America’s Voices Against Apartheid: Confronting Injustice at Home and Abroad tells the story of American anti-apartheid activism and the legacy of American and South African ties. This traveling exhibition opened for South African visitors at the Apartheid Museum in Soweto in Spring 2023 and opened for American audiences in The Kennedy Center ...
