...inspired by political activist Stephen Biko.

Hispanicity, in the United States, is officially treated as an ethnicity (a culture) rather than a race (a biological category). That is, if you are white, speaking Spanish as your native language makes you a different sort of white than speaking other European tongues. (There are myriad other complications here: What about Afro-Hispanics or Asian Latinos, for instance?) The assumption is that someone in Madrid, Spain, and someone in Lima, Peru, share a common culture because they both speak Spanish. This holds as much weight as claiming that someone in Anchorage, Alaska, and someone in Johannesburg, South Africa, share a common culture through English: maybe, but not necessarily. Spanish is spoken by some half a billion people worldwide, the majority of them living in the Americas, including the United States. It is the native language of 12 percent of Americans and is spoken by 30 percent of the population, including many native English speakers who have learned Spanish in school or through their professions. It is a truism now to say that the Spanish language, just like English, crosses races, nations, class boundaries and more. Why does it continue to have such a social stigma, and why is it taken as the emblem of the threat to English-language dominance of American culture?

...a man plays golf with a young boy as caddie at the Soweto Country Club in Soweto outside Johannesburg, South Africa...

...presented, with subtitles, in the African dialect of Sesotho—follows [main character] Mokoenya from the crime-riddled streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, to the homeland, Lesotho, from which he was plucked by his father as a young boy...

...the film revolves around two brothers, Ade and Femi. Ade...a successful lawyer based in London, travels to Johannesburg for a conference with his wife. He...arranges to meet his estranged brother, Femi...a former student activist, who, after being tortured (seemingly by the Abacha regime), fled to South Africa where he...sells hair extensions and works on construction sites. Femi does not turn up for the meeting, but soon, his South African fiance, Zodwa, turns up at Ade’s hotel to report that Femi is missing.

A former gas station, car dealership and dental school building are helping to transform central Johannesburg from a hotbed of crime to a hub for art.

Charlene Hunter-Gault was one of two black students to attend the University that year...in 1963, she would become its first black graduate...Her journalism degree would take her to The New York Times...and PBS’ The MacNeil/Lehrer Report...Hunter-Gault moved to South Africa in 1997 where she worked for NPR, and later was CNN’s bureau chief/correspondent in Johannesburg

...brain drain has been an enormous challenge for African nations. So an innovative new boarding school in Johannesburg is trying to create some incentives to keep talent at home. The two-year African Leadership Academy program targets the continent's most talented young people, positions them to get top Western-college educations...and then tries to make sure they come back.