The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late playwright Athol Fugard. Kunene and the King is Kani's latest project.

Karl Kani talks the '90s resurgence and his revolutionary baggy jean. By Rashad Benton Karl Kani is the godfather of urban streetwear, and he knows it. In early 1980’s Flatbush, Brooklyn, when ...

Kani’s hair is cloudy white and his left eye, lost to a police beating in 1985, is prosthetic. He speaks, softly and deeply, in short sentences that give him a gentle gravitas to go with that ...

Black Panther’s John Kani on Sequel Return, Marvel’s Real Life Importance John Kani is gearing up for the release on Disney’s The Lion King, in which he plays the new […] ...