This is a segment of episode #251 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Lifting The Shroud: Pandemic Capitalism & The Uprisings Of 2020 w/ Gerald Horne.” Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/LBWhorne2

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Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at Houston State University, examines the material conditions that have precipitated the uprisings across the United States the past few weeks in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th. His analysis includes how the novel coronavirus pandemic has led to the "unmasking of capitalism” stemming from the U.S. government's altogether lack of economic support for the majority of U.S. citizens in wake of this unprecedented crisis, and the hundreds of years of white supremacy and class conflict the United States has grappled with up to the present moment. Dr. Horne frames the wave of uprisings across the nation within a deeper and broader context of previous uprisings (e.g. the Watts Riots of the 1960s in Los Angeles and the nation-wide uprisings that occurred after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.).

Dr.  Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, is the author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. 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.  

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