Black Against Empire, The History and Politics author reading

Waldo E. Martin, Jr. discusses his new book, Black Against Empire, The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party on Thurs. May 9th at 7 p.m. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. is Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America, Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents and the Mind of Frederick Douglass. "This is the definitive history of one of the great revolutionary organizations in the history of this country. In the age of the Occupy Movement, let us learn deep democratic lessons and strong anti-imperial conclusions from this magisterial book!" Cornel West, author of Race Matters