Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean. His latest is The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering, and the political economy of boxing.
Photo: Emmett Till, 13-years-old, on Christmas Day, 1954. Photograph taken by Mamie Till Bradley on Wikipedia
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