https://www.ilwu.org/local-10-delegation-marks-50th-anniversary-of-the-durban-strikes/ On multiple occasions across three decades, members of ILWU Locals 10 and 34 as well as Local 6 and other ILWU locals supported the global struggle against apartheid. First in 1962, again in 1977, and most importantly, for 10 days in 1984, rank-and-file dockworkers refused to unload South African cargo in the Port of…
The Cornell Chronicle has reported that James Turner, the founding director of Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center and a pioneer of the multidisciplinary approach to exploring the African diaspora,
James Turner, the founding director of Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center and a pioneer of the multidisciplinary approach to exploring the African diaspora, died Aug. 6.
Dr. James Turner, the activist and scholar who integrated African-American history, life, culture and literature to Cornell University, died last week.