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<p>Cold war histories of civil rights have obscured the key role of communists and other radicals in establishing the economic demands of the movement and the practice of interracial mobilization. </p>
<p>Academics who plan to catch up on their reading this summer can look here for suggestions. </p>
The life of a Black radical who fled state violence in the US only to find it under a different name in the Soviet Union shows the state is never the solution.
Black Politics After George Floyd The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics. Illustration by Matt Williams One night last summer, I saw a police van go up in flames, and I allowed myself to feel hope, something that had become quite foreign to me after the year’s many stupefying months. For a number of us who went out in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the sacking of the third precinct in Minneapolis, it was the first time we had ...