THE BANJO by HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
October 18
1917—“Dizzy” Gillespie, bandleader and pioneer of “B-bop Jazz,” is born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, S.C.
1945—Actor, singer, activist...
Nakhane (front) stars in Inxeba (The Wound), a South African film about gay love at an initiation school. Inxeba/Urucu Media
by Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University
A recent...
