Leid Stories - Discovering Columbus - 10/08/12

Spoiler alert: Columbus never even set foot in the country he is credited with "discovering." What he should get credit for is ushering in tidal waves of genocide, plunder and war throughout the Americas and the Caribbean.  In one of his last lectures, the late Ivan Van Sertima, a world-renowned scholar of early African civilizations, uncovers the truth about the legendary discoverer.