The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2014. I was taken aback recently to read that Shirley Temple had died. She was 85, but to most of the world ...

Halloween will be here before you can say, "Boo!" but some local groups are getting the jump (scare) on things by offering ...

For the last nine years, children with Down syndrome in Alexandria, Virginia, have had the opportunity to be introduced to ballet thanks to The Purple Tutu. The program is now under the umbrella of ...

The National Civil Rights Museum's annual Freedom Award ceremony honored Marc Morial, Velma Lois Jones and Mark Suzman. Nearly 100 people have been honored with the Freedom Award over the past three ...

• Tutu's pine coffin will lie in state in the cathedral for two days at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town. Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end apartheid in South Africa, died on Sunday ...

In April next year, South Africa plans to start rolling out an anti-HIV jab, taken only twice a year, that could end Aids in the country within 14 to 18 years — if enough people take it. The ...

When South Africa emerged from the shadows of apartheid in 1994, the world looked on in awe. The land of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela — Prisoner 46664 turned President No. 1 — had done the impossible: it ...

Education: Bantu Normal Teacher’s College, Pretoria, 1953, South Africa; University of South Africa, Johannesburg, B.A., 1954; St. Peter’s Theological College ...

1954-1957 – Teaches school. He resigns in protest of government restrictions on education for black children. 1961 – Is ordained an Anglican priest. 1975 – Becomes the first black appointed Anglican ...