Black Scholar Praises Heroes and Indicts “Scoundrels” of McCarthy Era

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

02 Mar 2020

🖨️ Print Article

The peace activists that were persecuted in the McCarthy era were not fighting just for the absence of war, but were “anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and demanded an end to United States policing of the world,” said Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor of Africana Studies and political science at Carleton College. The exemplars of this struggle were W.E.B. Dubois, Paul Robeson and Claudia Jones, “Peace was construed as a Soviet ploy to undermine the American way of life,” said Burden-Stelly. Sound familiar?

Peace Movement

More Stories

Brian Kamanzi
South Africa’s Energy Crisis Escalates
27 Jul 2022
Behind rolling power cuts loom deep-seated socioeconomic issues worsened by the rich countries of the world.
Peoples Dispatch
National Strike in Panama Demands Justice for the Poor
27 Jul 2022
For almost two weeks, tens of thousands of Panamanians have been taking to the streets across the country protesting the cost of living crisis and lack of of response and attention from the…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mr. Magoo, what’s new? “Oh, say, can you see?”
22 Jul 2022
I. Didn’t Lynne say something like, “The law’s What they say it is…today…” (????????????????) Didn’t Lenin say something like, “The state is an
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio July 22, 2022
22 Jul 2022
The anniversary of the Sandinista revolution and a Central American zone of peace, the end of Roe v. Wade and American politics, and Biden administration aggression against Russia and China and the…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Nicaragua and a Central American Zone of Peace
22 Jul 2022
On July 19, 1979 Sandinista forces emerged victorious after years of struggle against the U.S. backed Somoza dictatorship. We talk to Netfa Freeman who is in Nicaragua about the significance of these…

Related Podcasts

More Stories