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Out now from Jackabin 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

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