Book review: "Confronting Black Jacobins"
Gerald Horne writes that the 1804 Haitian Revolution "was so profound that it may require an entire school of historians to take its true measure."
New Civil War book examines the role of guerrilla conflict
Until recently, the role of the Civil War guerrilla has been largely neglected.
"Race to Revolution" a must-read on U.S.-Cuba history
"Race To Revolution: The United States And Cuba During Slavery And Jim Crow" should be read especially now, as relations are renewed with Cuba.
"Death Blow to Jim Crow" comes highly recommended
At its peak, the National Negro Congress (NNC) included over 3,000 civic, religious, fraternal, labor and community organizations representing millions people.
“Free Angela and All Political Prisoners” to be shown in Baltimore
MICA keeps the focus on the crisis of mass incarceration in the United States with a showing Nov. 14 of the film "Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners."
Book review: Moshe Lewin's "The Soviet Century"
About Stalinism, Lewin strongly makes the point that while Stalin's tenure from the mid 1920s to the early 1950s represented a significant portion of Soviet history it did not represent all of it.
From "Reel Bad Arabs" to "Valentino's Ghost"
The group that has been consistently maligned since the days of silent star Rudolph Valentino's portrayal of The Sheik in 1921 are the Arabs. They have now become the caricature of the "terrorist."
A poem for Detroit
I'm going to tell to you a story; the details are a little gory. Detroiters are under attack; they're trying to stab us in the back.
“What Lies Across the Water”: Revealing new book on Cuban 5
In comprehensive and convincing fashion the book explains how the Cuban Five came to be arrested, tried, and imprisoned.
