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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Fight for American Democracy

With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.

by Chad Williams via Made By History on August 27, 2018

Infiltrating the Left

The FBI has long tried to destroy socialist organizations, but its actions aren't limited to surveillance.

by Aaron J. Leonard, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on August 19, 2018

Will Lee as Mr. Hooper

Spotlighting Communism & Hollywood in the Papers of Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper

The actor who played the loveable grocer found his way to Sesame Street after being blacklisted during the Red Scare.

via American Heritage Center Blog on April 18, 2018

‘The Snake’: How Trump Appropriated a Radical Black Singer’s Lyrics

A former communist from Chicago wrote the song in the 1960s, decades before Trump turned it into an anti-immigrant fable.

by Eli Rosenberg via Washington Post on February 24, 2018

Catalog, in red and black, for Drum & Spear Bookstore, depicting silhouettes of three people with afro hairstyles.

The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores

At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.

by Joshua Clark Davis via The Atlantic on February 19, 2018

A Homecoming for Murray Kempton

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.

by Andrew Holter via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 13, 2017

The Black Panthers and Young Patriots at a press conference.

The Panthers and the Patriots

The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.

by Michael McCanne via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

The Curious Death of Oppenheimer’s Mistress

Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?

by Alex Wellerstein via Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog on December 11, 2015

Painting of Woody Guthrie smoking a cigarette while playing a guitar.

Woody Guthrie: Folk Hero

Guthrie challenged the commercial aesthetic of the pre-rock era through a performance style that was almost combatively anti-musical.

by David Hajdu via The New Yorker on March 21, 2004

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