[NU Sports] Dennis Brutus

[MHRJGScott at aol.com]

A seminal figure in the battle against apartheid in South Africa and an  
English professor 1971 - 1985 at Northwestern has died.  He used sports to  
fight the racial policies as portrayed in the film "Invictus." Any of us on 
the  left (everybody?) remember him as a real symbol of a world of  racial 
politics far away from Evanston, as well as close to  home