Harlem
How Harlem Communists paved the way for Mamdani
November 10, 2025In many ways, the new mayor’s win is the inheritor of historic struggles and mass mobilizations led by Black people in the city under the leadership of the Communist Party USA.
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Art is labor, so why aren’t musicians and other artists viewed as workers?
December 21, 2023In the 1930s, artists came to think of themselves as cultural workers and their labor activism exploded.
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‘Summer of Soul,’ a look back at the pulsating 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
July 23, 2021Music scene of the late sixties and early seventies was a zenith for the many styles of which African were a part.
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Black queer socialist makes history, winning Democratic primary in Harlem
July 9, 2021Kristin Richardson Jordan overcame smears and homophobic attacks and declared victory in the city’s District 9.
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Harlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle
February 24, 2021The fight to save Black South Africans from starvation in 1946 foreshadowed the major struggles against apartheid that would define the decades to come.
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