Friday, July 19, 2019

Gerald Horne in L.A. (July 20)

KPFK.org; Eventbrite.com KPFK Speaker Series; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly
Prominent black scholar Dr. Gerald Horne* presents his two new books, Jazz & Justice, which explores racism and the political economy and White Supremacy Confronted, which compares US imperialism and anti-communism vs. the liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela. More + TIX
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*ABOUT: Moores Professor of History and African-American Studies Gerald Horne,at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books. His most recently published books include White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela and Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. He is also the author of Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, and Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly. At the 2017 National Council of Black Studies Conference, Dr. Horne was granted the "Ida B. Wells and Cheik Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Africana Studies."

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