Citizen Truth

Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements, and biographies on some of Africa's most important political thinkers and activities. Leo is editor of the Review of African Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. His critically acclaimed novel Eddie the Kid won the 2014 Creative Work Prize. Today with discuss Leo's book Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader. 

Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton University. Today we discuss his book The Dawning of The Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism In The Long Sixteenth Century. 

Danny Haiphong is a co-author of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. He is also a contributing editor at Black Agenda Report.  

David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

Alice Slater is the New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War.

Heather Ann Thompson is the author of Blood In The Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 And Its Legacy

Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett is the author of Media Imperialism. He is a professor emeritus of Bowling Green State University, Ohio and a professor emeritus at of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Raed ShakShak is a resident of Gaza and the outreach coordinator for We Are Not Numbers. He graduated from Al-Azhar University in Gaza with a degree in English language and literature.

Ahmed grew up in Gaza, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from al-Azher University and was the inspiration for/original project manager for We Are Not Numbers. He later won the UK's prestigious Chevening scholarship and earned a master's degree in international journalism from Leeds University. Today, in addition to staying active with We Are Not Numbers. he is co-founder of Border Gone, a site that translates We Are Not Numbers narratives into Hebrew to influence Israelis, and serves as lobbying coordinator for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Richard Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.