As protests occurred throughout the United States, a national push for divestment legislation urged Congress to pass the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986. The Act imposed sanctions against ...

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 ...

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.

As our neighbors to the north discovered, when a municipality adopts the specific language of one side of a global conflict, ...

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 ...

Gaza solidarity encampments, which started on U.S. college campuses, have now spread worldwide as students call on their educational institutions to divest from companies profiting from Israeli ...

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 ...

‘We know the sacrifices they underwent — some of them lost their jobs…But what struck us most was the fact that members of the labour movement so many thousands of miles away from us felt this sense ...

The way to honor Jackson is to “intensify the struggle for racial and economic justice,” his campaign co-chair said.

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 ...

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 ...