VJ is the author of more than two dozen books,

including his, just to name a few, his 2013,

The Poor Nations a Possible History of the Global South.

His 2002 book, Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting, Afro Asian Connections in the Myth of Cultural

Purity, and his most recent monograph, Red Star, over the Third World. He is currently chief editor of Left Word books and

Executive Director of Tricontidental Institute for Social Research. International Movement Driven Institution

focused on stimulating intellectual debate

that serves people's aspirations

with a focus on the Global South that, according to their website, namely to the countries

that continue to struggle against the histories and structures of imperialism. So that's the credential credential introduction.

VJ was making fun of that whole concept of introduction.

So let me give you a better introduction.

VJ's youngest daughter is a comedian.

You can find her online at you two.

Her name Zalia Maya.

She's got a great one hour long show called Diary

of a Coddled Feminist.

Just Google Zalia Maya, MAIA.

He's a former boxer, an owner of a Chinese restaurant.

I'm fairly certain that both of those are true.

Is that right, BJ?

His lecture tonight, to be serious again.

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