Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
C. L. R. James

Born: January 4, 1901
Died: May 19, 1989 (aged 88)
Bio: Cyril Lionel Robert James, best known as C. L. R. James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist.
Known for:
- The Black Jacobins (1938)
- Beyond a Boundary (1963)
- Minty Alley (1936)
- State Capitalism and World Revolution (1969)