I’m very pleased to share with you my recent conversation with Mumia Abu Jamal. In it, Mumia and I continued our ongoing discussions about black liberation struggles and the critical importance of teaching the history and theory of those...

On  Tuesday, March 5, 2013 two events happened of diametrically opposed moral and historical significance—the end of the life of the great world leader Hugo Chavez and the death of the Los Angeles mayoral elections. In between yawns and “oh,...

I’m very pleased to have back on the show, Becky Dennison and Pete White, co-directors of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, known as LA CAN. LA CAN builds leadership among Downtown LA’s very low-income and often homeless community members,...

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...

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...

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...