Being Somebody and Black Besides
An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
By George B. Nesbitt
With Forewards by Imani Perry and St. Clair Drake
Edited by Prexy Nesbitt and Zeb Larson
An immersive multigenerational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream in the twentieth century.
The late Chicagoan George Nesbitt could perhaps best be described as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In his newly uncovered memoir—written fifty years ago, yet never published—he chronicles in vivid and captivating detail the story of how his upwardly mobile Midwestern Black family lived through the tumultuous twentieth century.
International Brigade Against Apartheid
Secrets of the People’s War That Liberated South Africa
Edited by Ronnie Kasrils
With Muff Andersson & Oscar Marleyn
This book reads like a war-time thriller.
We hear for the first time from internationalists who secretly worked for the ANC’s armed wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They acted as couriers, provided safe houses in the neighbouring states and within South Africa, helped infiltrate combatants across borders, and smuggled tonnes of weapons into the country in the most creative of ways.
Zeb Larson 