We report on the organizing for our Henry Winston symposium in November, as well as the journal Avant-Garde. We also assess where we are in terms of the 2024 election.

This Saturday, we discuss whether the two parties of the state—the Democrats and Republicans—are on the verge of collapse. We also discuss James Baldwin's novels and how to approach reading them, as well as what we can learn for the Year of Baldwin from the Lotus group's reading of Baldwin at Penn.

We discuss free jazz and Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet's performance at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki in 1962. We also provide an update on our preparations for the November Henry Winston symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of his book, "Strategy for a Black Agenda."

We continue our discussion of Kwame Nkrumah's "Neocolonialism," the crisis of neocolonialism, and the recent G20 summit. We also continue our discussion of George Soros.

We discuss Kwame Nkrumah's "Neocolonialism", the crisis of neocolonialism, and the crisis of the US empire.

We discuss that the political path of all progressives in 2024 is to defeat Biden. We also complete our discussion of Coretta Scott King.

This week, we discuss the federal indictment of President Trump and recent polls of the 2024 Presidential election. We also discuss Archishman Raju's review of Martin Wolf's book "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism".