Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable.
We continue our coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic, which now has over 500,00 cases worldwide. The U.S. now has the most cases in the world and a death rate of 1,300 as of Friday morning, March 27. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wants to reopen the country, even as states - including New York, the hot spot of the crisis in the U.S. - scramble to find basic supplies needed to fight the virus. There is a disconnect in the White House from reality on the ground. Also, who gains and who loses from the $2 trillion stimulus package? How has the pandemic given cover for pressing forward on a right-wing agenda in the areas of immigration and foreign policy? 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.
