Historian Dr. Gerald Horne joins Africa Today for a far-reaching conversation on war, empire, Africa’s geopolitical role, race, Black internationalism, and the global shifts reshaping power.
Dr. Gerald Horne—B.A. Princeton University; J.D. University of California-Berkeley; Ph.D. Columbia University—has published dozens of books, including most recently, The Capital of Slavery: Washington, D.C., 1800-1865. His past books have included works on, inter alia, Hollywood; Jazz; Boxing; African liberation movements; the Haitian Revolution (translated into French); the Cuban Revolution (translated into Spanish); the Mexican Revolution; Caribbean independence struggles; Brazilian slavery (translated into Portuguese); the Pacific War (translated into Japanese); biographies of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois.