NYU exhibit highlights Communist role in American music
A new exhibit highlights the CPUSA's role in the renaissance of folk music and U.S. popular music in general during the 30s and beyond.
The stakes are high in third season of "The Americans"
In the latest episode we learn about the deadly craft of spying as it plays out in these damaged souls' lives. Targets, assets, friends, lovers, rivals.
"Dancer in the Revolution": Memoir of Stretch Johnson, Harlem communist
History is a curious thing, full of drama, intrigue, plot twists, misadventures. Howard "Stretch" Johnson's memoir is similarly curious.
Book offers analysis on Communist International
The history of U.S. communism and the Communist Party, USA isn't an easy subject to write about.
"Death Blow to Jim Crow" comes highly recommended
At its peak, the National Negro Congress (NNC) included over 3,000 civic, religious, fraternal, labor and community organizations representing millions people.
A largely forgotten tale: Communist Party's role in the South
The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 challenges the notion that Southern white workers were incapable of action with African Americans.
The war on film
As the generation who fought in World War II dwindles in numbers, we are losing crucial first-hand testimony of the heroic struggles to defeat fascism.
"Reds At The Blackboard": More positive view of today's Communist teachers
More historians are beginning to paint a more objective, balanced, and positive picture of the role of the CPUSA in the U.S. labor movement.
Syd Hoff and A. Redfield: Two sides of the same coin
An almost unknown dimension of his amazing career, discovered by his heirs only after his death in 2004, was Hoff's work for left-wing periodicals in the '30s.
Artist Al Heuer talks pop art and politics
When it comes to political activism, "What better way [to take part in it] than through photography and painting?"
