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My parents were Communists: The story of our 1934 eviction

August 30, 2019 By Noyma Appelbaum

My mother had not enjoyed a formal education, but she possessed a highly developed sense of working-class “street smarts”: She knew who the enemy was and how to deal with him.

Prison classroom reflects white supremacy in new memoir

August 30, 2019 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The New Plantation: Lessons from Rikers Island: The title comes from Trask’s first day on the job.

‘Seducing and Killing Nazis’ challenges us to resist, not adapt to, fascism

August 28, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

Hannie, Truus, and Freddie are seen as heroes now, but it took decades. They, like many of those they fought alongside, were victims of red-baiting and anti-communism.

400 years after slavery’s start, economic band-aids won’t solve racial divide

August 27, 2019 By Jessicah Pierre

I It’ll take bold structural reform and the political will to finally achieve economic justice for African Americans, because clearly ending slavery wasn’t enough.

‘The Putney Debates’: Let the good of the people be the supreme law

August 27, 2019 By Donald Donato

It was clear from the beginning of the English Civil Wars that some revolutionaries—on both sides of the pond—had even more radical ideas than championing Parliament’s authority over the monarchy.