‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 10, 2019: GERALD HORNE’S NEW BOOK ON SOUTH AFRICA, ‘WHITE SUPREMACY CONFRONTED’. PLUS, HEADLINES ON THE OCCUPATION OF THE VENEZUELAN EMBASSY BY INVITED PEACE ACTIVISTS, AND MORE…


As South African voters went to the polls this week, marking 25 years since the end of the racist apartheid system, we spend the hour with the author and activist Professor Gerald Horne and his new book, White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela. Plus headlines on the occupation of the Venezuela embassy by peace activists and more…

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