Lumumba's Assassination & the US's "Jazz Ambassadors" w/ Gerald Horne & Anthony Ballas (AR&D Ep. 14)

Lumumba's Assassination & the US's "Jazz Ambassadors" w/ Gerald Horne & Anthony Ballas (AR&D Ep. 14)

In this continuation of our African Revolutions and Decolonization series, we bring back two returning guests, Gerald Horne and Anthony Ballas, to discuss the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, and the U.S.'s "jazz ambassadors". A really stimulating discussion, we highly recommend you also check out our other episodes focused on the Congo to orient yourself historically here - The Congo - From Colonization Through Lumumba & Mobutu and The Situation in Congo - From Mobutu to M23 Rebels Today (both with Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja) and Mining the Congo w/ Josaphat Musamba, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe, & Ben Radley.

We also recommend you check out the previous episodes we have done with Dr. Horne, which include - Histories of Resistance in LA from 60's to Today, Texas and the Roots of U.S. Fascism, and The Counterrevolution of 1776

Anthony Ballas was also on the show recently, you can listen to the episode we did with him - Whiteness, Jake Paul, Boxing, & the Crisis of US Imperialism

Gerald Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research interests are unbelievably varied, encompassing biographies of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, to The Haitian Revolution, to Hollywood in the '30s-'50s, to Jazz and Justice. Be sure to check out his bibliography, you're certain to find something that interests you!

Anthony Ballas is an organizer and a PhD student at Duke University. His work appears in Monthly Review, Protean Magazine, Caribbean Quarterly, 3:AM Magazine, Truthout, Middle West Review, CounterPunch, Scalawag Magazine, Peace, Land and Bread Magazine, and elsewhere. He also the host of the De Facto Podcast and co-host of Cold War Cinema.

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