How They Changed the World: Commemorating the Soweto Uprising
“History works through people and we have availed ourselves to history to work through us.” These words of Bantu Stephen Biko, the founder of South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), were top of mind last week. In large part because on June 16th, South Africa commemorated a significant day in the history of its anti-apartheid struggle and of youth activism. On June 16, 1976, thousands of youth marched out of their schools to protest inequality in education. While t