Mansa Musa

“America at 250” celebrations rely on a national mythology about the American Revolution that only really includes Patriot and Loyalist elites. Through the eyes of enslaved people, the story of the birth of the US looks very different.

“I got into publishing because I was in the Black Panther Party and we had people in jail,” Paul Coates—legendary activist, publisher, and founder of Black Classic Press—tells TRNN.

“It’s a war against my people. Genocide didn't start just in Gaza in 2023. The genocide against us started since 1948,” award-winning Palestinian author and former political prisoner Basem Khandakji tells TRNN.

"We’ve got to show up like never before... take control of our government and then we can finally do the work of the people."

In 2026, fascism in the US is rising while “the left” descends further into powerlessness, goofiness, and irrelevance—but, author William C. Anderson argues, it doesn't have to stay that way. In this episode of

Love him or loathe him, John Dramani Mahama commands a rare blend of respect, affection, and admiration — the kind of warmth reserved for only a handful of figures in Ghana's socio‑political history.

Locked up by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926, the prison writings of Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci remain essential and terrifyingly relevant 100 years later.

In those heady days of slash-and-plunder under the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/Ken Ofori-Atta administration, those who chose to remain loyal to Ghana mdash; refusing to join in the alleged looting mdash; were often regarded as the unwise ones .

“This idea that you're trying to gain popular consent, you're trying to win elections, you're trying to create coalitions by promising a certain degree of force exercised against a target population,” says Alberto Toscano.

“…if Baltimore don't tell its story, we've seen time and time again, people will come and tell the story and the story will be told in a way that gets them more and more dollars.