In this week’s show our guest is Dr. Gerald Horne. He is the chair of the African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is a frequent guest on the following Radio Shows: Democracy Now and Connect The Dots and is a contributor to the Political Affairs magazine and is a prolific author. His books include The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America; Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies; The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade; Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (American History and Culture); Blows Against the Empire: U.S. Imperialism in Crisis and many more… Our topic is African American history. Dr. Horne discusses slavery and its abolishment and the imperialistic and democratic aspects of the U.S. We also address the correlation between the treatment of Native and African Americans, White supremacy and Black nationalism as well as the Black Lives Matter Movement.
In this week’s show our guest is Dr. Gerald Horne. He is the chair of the African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is a frequent guest on the following Radio Shows: Democracy Now and Connect The Dots and is a contributor to the Political Affairs magazine and is a prolific author. His books include The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America; Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies; The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade; Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (American History and Culture); Blows Against the Empire: U.S. Imperialism in Crisis and many more… Our topic is African American history. Dr. Horne discusses slavery and its abolishment and the imperialistic and democratic aspects of the U.S. We also address the correlation between the treatment of Native and African Americans, White supremacy and Black nationalism as well as the Black Lives Matter Movement.