Says Myeni, a student of KwaZulu-Natal University, "That Gandhi was anti-Black, I discovered only now." Since the discovery, the 20-year-old's list of national heroes - Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, ...

In this dance form, performers used to paint their bodies but gradually masks evolved. These were made from dried leaves, ...

Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1948. (AP) ... Black and White" won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. His most recent book is "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India." ...

Contrary to popular belief, Mahatma Gandhi wasn't always about peace and love. The world-renowned face of the non-violent Indian independence movement also believed in racial segregation in South ...

Gandhi, the authors write, was indifferent to the plight of the indentured, and believed that state power should remain in white hands, and called black Africans Kaffirs, a derogatory term, for a ...

The letter by Rajiv Radhakrishnan about Mahatma Gandhi (February 18) is based on a misconception.In his early years in South Africa Gandhi was clearly racist, but by the time he left, he was on ...

OPINION: Gandhi detested the honorific of mahatma (great soul). He continuously asserted he was merely a human striving to move toward truth.

Joseph Lelyveld subtly tips his hand in his title. The word Mahatma (often employed in ordinary journalistic usage without any definite article, as if it were Mohandas Gandhi’s first name) is ...