Cuba and Haiti have both seen increasing unrest over the past two weeks. Today, Thursday host Allen Ruff puts these crises in context and traces the history of U.S. interference in the Caribbean with historian Gerald Horne.

Gerald Horne is the Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He’s the author of over thirty books to date, including a history of the political economy of jazz (Jazz and Justice, Monthly Review Press, 2019), a comparison of the entangled histories of South African apartheid and Jim Crow (White Supremacy Confronted, International Publishers, 2019), the African American struggle to gain the right to fly (Storming the Heavens, Black Classic Press, 2017), and his most recent publication, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century (NYU Press, 2020).

He is a frequent contributor to Political Affairs magazine as well as various radio programs.

Cover photo: “SOS Cuba Patria y Vida” by Luis F. Rojas from Voice of America, public domain