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Fri, Apr 17, 2020 15:00 PM

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Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. -
As the death toll continues to climb in the United States to over 33,000 and testing for COVID - 19 remains problematic, the Trump administration has announced guidelines to re
Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne. -
Jackie Goldberg is a governing board member for the Los Angeles School Board - District 5. She is a former member of the California State Assembly. Goldberg had previously served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. Before being elected to the council, she served on, and was later president of, the Los Angeles School Board.
Laura Carlsen is the Director of the Americas Program. Based in Mexico City, she is a regular contributor to Americas Updater, Foreign Policy in Focus, CounterPunch, Fortune and several Spanish - language publications. Laura is also a television host and commentator on globalization, the Drug War, immigration and gender issues for various international news outlets.
Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African - American Studies at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books. His most recently published books include White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti

Synopsis: Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable.

As the death toll continues to climb in the United States to over 33,000 and testing for COVID-19 remains problematic, the Trump administration has announced guidelines to re-open the country. This, against the advice of the usually-conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce as well as other corporate leaders. They say more testing is needed before the country can re-open safely. Nevertheless, Trump says some states could reopen as early as Friday, April 17. This, after Trump dealt a blow to fighting this and any future pandemics around the world by cutting U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, a blow that will hit the poorest the hardest. Also, once we do come out of this pandemic, will we return to business as usual?

Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Jackie Goldberg is a governing board member for the Los Angeles School Board - District 5. She is a former member of the California State Assembly. Goldberg had previously served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. Before being elected to the council, she served on, and was later president of, the Los Angeles School Board.

Laura Carlsen is the Director of the Americas Program. Based in Mexico City, she is a regular contributor to Americas Updater, Foreign Policy in Focus, CounterPunch, Fortune and several Spanish-language publications. Laura is also a television host and commentator on globalization, the Drug War, immigration and gender issues for various international news outlets.

Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books. His most recently published books include White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, From Rhodes to Mandela and "Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. He is also the author of "Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity," "The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean," and "Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early fight for the Right to Fly."

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