Gerald Horne, lawyer and historian, is the author of dozens of books on slavery, socialism, popular culture and Black Internationalism, including Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California Through the Sixties and Seventies (International Publishers, 2024); The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism and Capitalism in the Long 16th Century (Monthly Review Press, 2020) and  The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA (NYU Press, 2014).