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Ruling Class Rethinks Juneteenth⁠—While Overlooking Black Liberation

Dr. Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse, spoke to Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman, hosts of By Any Means Necessary, via Radio Sputnik, Washington DC, about the “incomplete” narrative of Juneteenth embraced by the political establishment, the role of class collaboration in the construction of white supremacy in the US, and why corporate moves to dispose of racist iconography reflect the growing power of the anti-racist movement. Listen to the whole show, or begin with Gerald Horne, at hour two… | more…

A Celebration of Black Liberation & Day to Remember the “Horrific System That Was Slavery”: Gerald Horne on Democracy Now!

Author and historian Gerald Horne, author of the just published The Dawning of the Apocalypse, talks with Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!: “June 19 is Juneteenth, celebrating the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black people in the United States learned they had been freed from bondage. We speak with Gerald Horne, who says that while the story of Juneteenth is ‘much more complicated and much more complex than is traditionally presented,’ increased recognition of the day ‘provides an opportunity to have a thorough remembrance of this horrific system that was slavery.’” | more…

Tearing Down White Supremacist Monuments Isn’t Empty Symbolism: Gerald Horne on The Real News

Gerald Horne, author of the recently published The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, talks to Jacqueline Luqman of The Real News Network about how the monuments that are coming down represent “more than just the people they honor — they symbolize the brutal legacy of white supremacy, racism, colonialism, and genocide we live with today…” | more…

Via Jacobin magazine’s “Stay at Home” videos: Gerald Horne on the 1960s Urban Uprisings and Their Legacy

Bhaskar Sunkara, editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine and Catalyst journal, joins Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston, to discuss the police brutality that led to the Watts rebellion in 1965 and how its legacy can be understood in light of today’s recent events. Watch, below or at Jacobin (Also keep in touch with Jacobin‘s ongoing live-stream lectures) | more…

Gerald Horne: The History of Police in the U.S. & Connections to Slavery

Gerald Horne, whose book The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century is just out, talks to Margaret Prescod, host of Sojourner Truth Radio, about the legacy of policing in the U.S. How did it start? What impact did its history have on what’s happening in policing today? And what is the inter-relationship between the legacy of slavery and genocide against Indigenous people, policing and mass incarceration practices of today? | more…

New! “The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century”

August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed…. | more…

How does L.A.’s racial past resonate now? Gerald Horne joins a discussion

To explore what’s going on now in the streets, in light of how “Black people’s lives have remained vulnerable and unprotected by the very government that abolished the institution of slavery,” Marcus Anthony Hunter, chair of the department of African American Studies at UCLA, and author of three books, assembled five noted authors and journalists of color, including Gerald Horne, author of the forthcoming The Dawning of the Apocalypse… | more…

The Point Is to Change It: Dollars & Sense reviews Yates’s “Can the Working Class Change the World?”

Yates begins with a detailed description of the world-wide working class. Who they are: most wage laborers, the reserve army of labor (unemployed, involuntary part-timers and discouraged workers), unpaid reproductive workers, and most peasants and laborers. How many: several billion spread across the globe. According to Yates, there are more people in the working class than many might suppose…. | more…