Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists weigh in on the latest news and government measures resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.
Laura Carlsen is the Director of the Americas Program. Based in Mexico City, she is a regular contributor to Americas Updater, Foreign Policy in Focus, CounterPunch, Fortune and several Spanish-language publications. Laura is also a television host and commentator on globalization, the Drug War, immigration and gender issues for various international news outlets.
Jackie Goldberg is a governing board member for the Los Angeles School Board - District 5. She is a former member of the California State Assembly. Goldberg had previously served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. Before being elected to the council, she served on, and was later president of, the Los Angeles School Board.
Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books. His most recently published books include White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, From Rhodes to Mandela and "Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. He is also the author of "Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity," "The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean," and "Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early fight for the Right to Fly." At the 2017 National Council of Black Studies conference, Dr. Horne was granted the "Ida B. Wells and Cheik Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Africana Studies."
