博士. Gerald Horne Book Release

博士. 杰拉尔德·霍恩 是美国黑人历史学家, 笔者, 和共产党谁目前持有的约翰·Ĵ. 与历史和非裔美国人研究在休斯敦大学的丽贝卡·穆尔斯主席. 他获得博士学位来自美国哥伦比亚大学，并获得法学博士学位. 从加州大学, 伯克利. 他是一个经常为政治事务杂志.

“Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly”

The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African-American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this story and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African-Americans to gain the right to fly. This struggle involved pioneers like Bessie Coleman, who traveled to World War I era Paris in order to gain piloting skills that she was denied in her U.S. homeland; and John Robinson, from Chicago via Mississippi, who traveled to 1930s Ethiopia where he was the leading pilot for this beleaguered African nation as it withstood an invasion from fascist Italy, became the personal pilot of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie and became a founder of Ethiopian Airways, which to this very day is Africa’s most important carrier. 此外, Horne adds nuance to the oft told tale of the Tuskegee Airmen but goes further to discuss the role of U.S. pilots during the Korean War in the early 1950s.

“The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox”

For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged links with figures as diverse as Jawaharlal Nehru, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Nixon. Gerald Horne weaves Barnett’s fascinating life story through a groundbreaking history of the ANP, including its deep dedication to Pan-Africanism. An activist force in journalism, Barnett also helped send doctors and teachers to Africa, advised African governments, gave priority to foreign news gathering, and saw the African American struggle in global terms. Yet Horne also confronts Barnett’s contradictions.

事件
Gerald Horne – Book Signing
Esowon Books
4331 德格纳恩大道, 洛杉矶
星期六. 十月 7
4:00 下午