The Russian Revolution quickly became a celebrated apologia

quickly became a celebrated apologia for the leader of the largest Pan-African mass movement of all time

Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down

Writing for both general and academic audiences

In the end

funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist

The Russian Revolution quickly became a celebrated apologiaIn his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning rod for working class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaicas Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly