Durban

Otelo Burning

Kaia: Please Boer Me

Happily, New York gets some more South African food

Bunny Chow: The Full Story

At Kaia, your bunny chow comes with a full range of chutneys and other condiments. It sounds really playful, doesn't it? But the South African specialty of bunny chow has some darker underpinnings. A specialty of the city of Durban, and specifically of the ethnically Indian population there, it co ... More >>

Scientology on the High Seas: "You Chilluns Will Get Shoes"

NOTE: This is our regularly-scheduled Friday morning feature about L. Ron Hubbard aboard the Apollo. Our second day of reporting from the Debbie Cook hearing begins soon. Please check back for that coverage. In November we started a new feature here on Fridays: the Voice has obtained hundreds of c ... More >>

Virgin's On Top at Bunny Chow

The Lower East Side greets a South African restaurant

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B? Lamb Bunny Chow From LES Newcomer Bunny Chow

​ The funny thing about bunny chow is that it is hardly rabbit food. Also, it does not contain bunny. Instead, it is an ingenious South African fast food consisting of a hollowed-out hunk of bread filled with curry, and topped with the scooped-out bread innards and chutney. It bears some resem ... More >>

Rightbloggers Enraged by Medals to Evil President of Ireland, Homosexual, Breast Cancer Fighter, Etc.

President Obama's list of 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners came out yesterday, and rightbloggers have had some time to snarl over it. There is plenty there to exercise them. The list includes Harvey Milk (a homosexual!), Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow (an injun!), Rev. Joseph Lowery (a civil-rig ... More >>

New York Rally for Slave Reparations Searches for Focus

The Fire This Time?

What If All the Africans in the World Had a Meeting?

No Masses, No Movement

Black Boomers Shout Reparations in the Court—But Go Silent in the 'Hood

The Education of Mary Robinson

A Conversation With the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights

Why Doves Must Fly

Now That We've Lost the Anti-War, We Need the Peace Movement More Than Ever

Al Sharpton’s Jewish Problem

So What’s Not to Like?

The Conference that Wasn’t

The Fight Over Zionism-Equals-Racism Pushed Aside Many Issues

A Summit of Their Own

Youth Demand Action Outside the World Conference Against Racism

Despite U.S. Pullout, Debate Over Reparations Continues

Scenes From the UN Conference Against Racism

Toxic Tour

A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism

Compensation Counts

An Activist Speaks on Reparations and the UN Conference Against Racism

Acting Up Again

AIDS Activism Goes Global

Turning Point

The International AIDS Conference Makes a Commitment to Saving Third-World Lives

Apathy, Lack of Funds Imperil AIDS Prevention

Top American AIDS Official Calls Rate of New Infections 'Unacceptably High'

Lost Opportunity

South African President Hedges on Cause of AIDS, Ignores Access to Medicine

Proof Positive

How African Science Has Demonstrated That HIV Causes AIDS

Debating the Obvious

Inside the South African Government's Controversial AIDS Panel

Letters

Truth and Consequences

Part 7: South Africa Acts Up

Building a Movement on the Ruins of Apartheid

Hit It, Now Hold It