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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.

Between 1949 to 1958 dozens of Communist Party (CPUSA) leaders were tried, some were convicted, and several served prison terms.

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande’s powerful anthology of writings by feminists of African descent, To Exist is to Resist: Black

In 1975, the Black Radical magazine Freedomways published a tribute in celebration of the end of the International Women’s Year,