In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950s and '60s who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music...

Discusses the history of African-Americans from the 1970s after the civil rights movement to just after the Los Angeles riots of 1992. "When something goes from bad to worse, we say it "fell out of the frying pan and into the fire." This timeless phrase succinctly captures what has happened to the majority of African Americans since the 1970s. The civil rights movement of the 1960s brought about remarkable gains for most black people, and by 1970...

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass dispossession worldwide....

"[C]onsists of 118 exceptionally powerful linoleum prints [and] provides a unique graphic history of one of the most infamous, racially charged episodes in the annals of the American judicial system, and of the racial and class struggle of the time"--Book cover jacket.