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Mumia Abu-Jamal on Zinn

In this prison radio commentary, death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal reflects on the death of Howard Zinn. The People’s Historian, informed by his scholastic mind, was a public supporter of the effort to grant Abu-Jamal a re-trial. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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Subversive Historian – 02/01/10

{Surprisingly This Was Not a Denny’s Restaurant!} The Greensboro Sit-ins Back in the day on February 1st, 1960, four young black college students challenged a white-only lunch counter policy in Greensboro, North Carolina. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond carried out their devised sit-in when they entered Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime shop. After purchasing items [...]

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Subversive Historian – 01/29/10

{Mill Workers Remembering One of Their Own} The Death of Anna LoPizzo Back in the day on January 29th, 1912, Anna LoPizzo, an immigrant mill worker, was shot and killed in a picket line of the Lawrence Textile Strike. The American Woolen Company in Massachusetts had pilfered out wage decreases to its mostly female workforce at its [...]

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Subversive Historian – 01/28/10

{The Waters of the Coquille River} The Nasomah Village Massacre Back in the day on January 28th, 1854, the Nasomah Village Massacre took place in Southern Oregon. Tensions between Native peoples and whites had been mounting in the area as incursions and settlements inflamed temperaments. Two years prior to the bloodshed, gold had been discovered at the [...]

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Interviewing Howard Zinn

{Graphic Novel Depiction of the People’s Historian} I was fortunate enough to interview the late Howard Zinn twice in my youthful forays into journalism. I first produced a provocative segment with the people’s historian in 2006 after the Los Angeles Times published an article that suggested that famous anarchist martyrs Sacco and Vanzetti may have been [...]

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