Book Review
McBride’s “Good Lord Bird,” Packer’s “Unwinding”: National Book Award winners
November 27, 2013The Good Lord Bird, the adventures of a disguised black child caught up in John Brown's abolitionist crusade, was the winner of the National Book Award for fiction.
Read more“Black Revolutionary” explores life of William Patterson and global freedom fight
November 8, 2013In Gerald Horne's new book, "Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle," we are privy to William L. Patterson's transformation from well-to-do lawyer to a revolutionary.
Read moreFinding her authentic voice
October 9, 2013Several stories reflect te author's gnawing awareness of severe class and ethnic disparities in her adopted land.
Read moreBook review: “Cuba and its Neighbors – Democracy in Motion”
October 4, 2013"Cuba and its Neighbors - Democracy in Motion" enables the reader to broaden his or her understanding of Cuban political life.
Read moreBook review: Moshe Lewin’s “The Soviet Century”
September 3, 2013About 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.
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