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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence,

Rhode Island. I somehow didn't hear much about the Communist Party as part of my elementary

school Black History Month curriculum. But as political scientist Michael Dawson, my guest today,

makes clear black radicalism is at the core of black history. And radical history is incomplete without the stories of the black people who joined both multiracial socialist organizations

and independent nationalist ones to fight for their liberation.

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