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Gerald Horne on “Who Belongs?” podcast: EP 28 – Settler colonialism, the insurrections of the 1960s, and today

February 20, 2024

Listen to Professor Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse, talk with Marc Abizeid and Erfan Morandi, hosts of the podcast Who Belongs? A Podcast on Othering & Belonging. Professor Horne has written on a spectrum of issues and events including the early settler colonial period of the US, the Haitian and Mexican revolutions, labor politics, civil rights, profiles of WEB Du Bois and revolutionary artist Paul Robeson, to name just a few. The interview focuses on the uprisings of the 1960s, structural racism, and the transformative currents of today. Listen, below, or at Who Belongs?/SoundCloud

Gerald Horne talks with Walter Turner, via KPFA’s “Africa Today”

February 20, 2024

Scholar, author, journalist, and host of KPFA Radio's “Africa Today,” Walter Turner talked recently with Dr. Gerald Horne, historian and author of several books, most recently, The Dawning of the Apocalypse, about--among other things--embedded questions of class in America's long history of racism. Listen, below, or at Africa Today

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

February 20, 2024

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)

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

February 20, 2024

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..."

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

February 20, 2024

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.’”

Sojourner Truth Radio: June 19, 2020 – Juneteenth Special with Gerald Horne

February 20, 2024

Margaret Prescod, host of Sojourner Truth Radio, interviews Dorothy Roberts, author, author of Killing the Black Body, Ash-Lee Henderson, Affrilachian (Black Appalachian) activist, and historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse...

Ruling Class Rethinks Juneteenth⁠—While Overlooking Black Liberation

February 20, 2024

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...

How Big Agriculture & Capitalism Are Making Pandemics Like Coronavirus More Likely: Rob Wallace on RT

February 20, 2024

Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, talks to Afshin Rattans, host of RT's Going Underground, about how, in recent history, deforestation and land use changes driven by global capital have caused more epidemics, and why the emergency response to the latest Coronavirus is ineffective at solving problems such as deadly pathogens...

Gerald Horne on The New Intellectuals: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, & Capitalism

February 20, 2024

Jordan Camp, host of The New Intellectuals, a monthly online program produced for the People's Forum in New York City, talks to historian and author Gerald Horne about Dr. Horne's new book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

Gastronomica reviews “A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism”

February 20, 2024

A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism is at once a primer on the world’s dominant economic structure and a broad analysis of the food system that it has created. Eric Holt-Giménez persuades his readers that fluency in capitalism is essential to anyone seeking to effect change within the food system...