new world coming

James Counts Early is joined by Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, activist in the Movement for Black Lives, and author of important texts like Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (2018) and Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (2013). In this conversation, they discuss the important legacy of Black feminism and how capitalism cannot be undone without the destroying patriarchy, the current and active history of the Black Lives Matter movement, and why the struggle for Black liberation in the U.S. must be connected to global struggles for liberation. 

To learn more about James and Barbara’s discussion, check out our Political Education platform at https://politicaleducation.peoplesforum.org/new-world-coming-ep-7 to see resources, texts, and a glossary of terms for each episode!

New World Coming is a new interview series program produced by The People’s Forum. Our host for this program is James Counts Early, longtime thinker and collaborator of Afro-descendent movements and Black liberation struggles in the Americas. We will be interviewing scholars, activists, and leaders of the African diaspora on lessons from the history of anti-racist organizing.

James Counts Early is joined by Esteban Morales Domínguez, economist, social scientist, militant participant of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and pioneering scholar on the question of race and racism in Cuba. In this conversation, they discuss the strategies for confronting and beginning to resolve racism and discrimination in Cuban society, how the Cuban government has worked to put in place the conditions for ideological and social change, and what our solidarity task is as organizers within the United States.

To learn more about James and Esteban’s discussion, check out our Political Education platform at https://politicaleducation.peoplesfor... to see resources, texts, and a glossary of terms for each episode!

For Episode 4 of New World Coming, James Counts Early is joined by historian, activist, and former diplomat, Jesus “Chucho” Garcia to discuss the complexities of the state, social and civil organizations, and the people working together to deepen the principles of the Bolivarian Revolution. They also discuss the power relations of developing democracy, the struggle for reparations in Latin America, and his career work of studying African history. Jesus “Chucho” Garcia is the founder of Fundación AfroAmérica Y Diáspora Africana and former Venezuelan Ambassador to Angola.

To learn more about James and Chucho’s discussion, check out our Political Education platform at https://politicaleducation.peoplesforum.org/new-world-coming-ep-4 to see resources, texts, and a glossary of terms for each episode!

New World Coming is an interview series program produced by The People’s Forum. Our host for this program is James Counts Early, longtime thinker and collaborator of Afro-descendent movements and Black liberation struggles in the Americas. We will be interviewing scholars, activists, and leaders of the African diaspora on lessons from the history of anti-racist organizing.

James Counts Early is joined by scholar and activist Zuleica Romay Guerra to discuss the history of Afro-descendants in Cuba’s historic struggle for liberation, what anti-racism work looks like in Cuba, and the complexities of what comes after revolution. Zuleica is the Director of Afro-american Studies at Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba. This episode features a dubbed translation of Zuleica's responses read by Claudia De la Cruz, Co-Executive Director of The People's Forum.

To learn more about James and Zuleica’s discussion, check out our Political Education platform to see resources, texts, and a glossary of terms for each episode!

New World Coming is an interview series program produced by The People’s Forum. Our host for this program is James Counts Early, longtime thinker and collaborator of Afro-descendent movements and Black liberation struggles in the Americas. We will be interviewing scholars, activists, and leaders of the African diaspora on lessons from the history of anti-racist organizing.