Mar
19
2013
Professor Gerald Horne, professor of History and African American Studies at Houston University, discusses his new book Negro Comrades of the Crown: African-Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation. Gerald has written over 30 books, with...
Feb
27
2013
December 2012
Long Distance Revolutionary: a Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal, is a compelling documentary about a riveting historical figure—a passionate, partisan, and persuasive intervention in the not at all “free marketplace of ideas.” Mumia Abu Jamal is the most famous...
Feb
22
2013
Preface to the review which follows below:
My work on Stephen Spielberg's film, Lincoln has been transformative. I have gone back to read W. E. B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction in America, Doris Kearns Goodman’s Band of Rivals, and Fawn Brodie’s...
Jan
22
2013
Dr. Martin Luther King was a constantly evolving person and was intellectually and political courageous. The system’s manipulation and re-writing of his life to suit its self-congratulatory purposes is cynical and venal—and once again, an effort to suppress the...
Jan
08
2013
My thesis is that the film does a great historical disservice by portraying the Civil War as a debate among white people about Black people, who, in the film, hardly exist.
I am especially disappointed and baffled by the decisions...
Dec
12
2012
Join:
Malcolm X Grass Roots (MXGM)
ONYX Organizing Committee (OOC)
Urban Shield Community Ready Team
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Chairman Fred Hampton Jr of the Prisoners of Consciousness Committee the P.O.C.C.
...to have a dynamic Panel and Discussion about the war on African Americans in North...
