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How Jazz Survived White Supremacy: Gerald Horne talks to Truthout about “Jazz and Justice”

February 20, 2024

Certainly, being a ‘jazz’ musician in the first decades of the 20th century was probably the most dangerous profession in the arts and, along with coal mining, one of the most dangerous jobs of all. Inhaling cigarette smoke in dank clubs, being plied with alcohol and other controlled substances by unscrupulous bosses of clubs and record labels alike, being attacked violently by racist ‘fans’

Gerald Horne on Jazz and the fight against colonialism in southern Africa

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, acclaimed historian and author of numerous books, including his forthcoming, Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, talks with Brian Becker, host of Loud & Clear on Sputnik International

Imperialism in a coffee cup: John Smith caffeinates Open Democracy

February 20, 2024

Even the debate on reparations for slavery and colonialism is framed in terms of correcting past wrongs, excluding any notion that imperialist plunder of nature and living labour continues apace in the modern ‘post-colonial’ world....

CounterPunch Radio asks Michael Yates: CAN the Working Class Change the World?

February 20, 2024

Michael D. Yates, author of several books including his recent Can the Working Class Change the World?, talks to Eric Draister, host of CounterPunch Radio, about who’s working class, how we have already changed the world, and how we need to keep changing it…

Gerald Horne talks to KPFK’s Freedom Now about South Africa and “Jazz and Justice”

February 20, 2024

Brandon Sankara, co-founder of the South L.A. nonprofit Wisdom From The Field and host of KPFK’s Freedom Now, talks to prolific author and historian, Gerald Horne, about the recent elections in South Africa, drawing on Horne’s recently released White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela,/em>. They also discuss Gerald Horne’s latest book, soon to be published, Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music.

New! “Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society”

February 20, 2024

There are more than twenty-five comprehensive biographies of Marx, but none of them consider his life and work in equal, corresponding measure. This biography, planned for three volumes, aims to include what most biographies have reduced to mere background: the contemporary conflicts, struggles, and disputes that engaged Marx at the time of his writings, alongside his complex relationships with a varied assortment of friends and opponents....

African Swine Fever, Industrial Farming, and Us–Rob Wallace on The Real News

February 20, 2024

WILPERT: Joining me now to discuss the causes, consequences, and solutions to African Swine Fever is Rob Wallace….
WALLACE: Hello. I would say it was a pleasure to be here, but I think when Real News’s audience sees me, they know that some terrible disease has happened out there somewhere….”

New!!! “Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music”

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne’s Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music examines the economic, social, and political forces that shaped this music into a phenomenal U.S.—and Black American—contribution to global arts and culture. Horne assembles a galvanic story depicting what may have been the era’s most virulent economic—and racist—exploitation, as jazz musicians battled organized crime, the Ku Klux Klan, and other variously malignant forces dominating the nightclub scene where jazz became known...

“Original, engaging, cliche-free”: UK’s Morning Star navigates Helena Sheehan’s Zeitgeist

February 20, 2024

Born into a typical all-American and socially conservative family of Irish Catholic origin, it’s fair to say that Helena Sheehan’s eventual immersion in left politics would probably have come as much of a shock to her as it did to her immediate family...

New! “Planning from Below: A Decentralized Participatory Planning Proposal”

February 20, 2024

Political scientist, author, and activist, Marta Harnecker devoted her life to collaborating in building radical democracy in Latin American communities where people have, for generations, experienced crushing poverty and a near complete loss of control over their lives. In South America and the Caribbean, but especially in Cuba and Venezuela, Harnecker has worked directly with disenfranchised workers and peasants. In this latest work, Harnecker, with Spanish economist José Bartolomé, shares some of her wisdom on how this is being done, and how communities everywhere can gain empowerment.