Remembering Howard Zinn 1922 – 2010

Howard Zinn was an American historian, author, political activist, playwright and public intellectual. Zinn was Professor of History at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1956 to 1963(a historially African-American college). Later he was Professor of Political Science, Boston University from 1964 to 1988. One of his major publications was a A People's History of the United States. Bob Herbert wrote: Mr. Zinn was often taken to task for peeling back the rosy veneer of much of American history to reveal sordid realities that had remained hidden for too long. [...] What was so radical about believing that workers should get a fair shake on the job, that corporations have too much power over our lives and much too much influence with the government, that wars are so murderously destructive that alternatives to warfare should be found, that blacks and other racial and ethnic minorities should have the same rights as whites, that the interests of powerful political leaders and corporate elites are not the same as those of ordinary people who are struggling from week to week to make ends meet?(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Jerry Pippin and Bostonred discuss Dr. Zinn's take on the Obama election in 2008,third parties and the 9/11 Movement.