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Before Arthur Ashe Was a Stadium, He Was a Problem for Apartheid

The author, TaNeesha Johnson, in front of the colourful 2026 US Open mural by Eugenia Mello at Flushing Meadows.

Every late August in New York, Arthur Ashe becomes a place. More than 23,000 people fill the stadium carrying his name. Players walk through its tunnels, and commentators use the name as geography: Night session at Ashe. Meet me outside Ashe. Fifty-three years ago, another country was trying to keep Arthur Ashe out. South Africa […]

The Woman History Could Not Contain

Painting of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by South African artist Loyiso Mkize.

More than a decade in the making, conceived by Ivor Ichikowitz and directed by the late Mandy Jacobson, a Netflix docuseries produced by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s granddaughters, Princess Swati Mandela-Dlamini and Princess Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, returns her story to the family that knew her first.