Letters and Politics

Gerald Horne on the Militant Origins of Black History Month

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 MandelaThe 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