Gerald Horne, author of Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party, will join us for a special Juneteenth political education event remembering Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. (1903–1964) the communist city council member from Georgia who represented Harlem from 1943 to '49, before he was expelled and imprisoned, along with other leftist in government, under the Smith Act.

We'll reflect on Davis's legacy and consider its import for our branch—leading up to the primaries on 6/22—as we campaign to elect two black socialists to city council.

Read chapters 8–10 of Black Liberation / Red Scare here.

Order the full book, recently re-issued, here.

Read Horne's recent interview in Democratic Left, "From Settler Colony to Slaveholder Republic" here.

Dr. Gerald Horne is a professor of history and African-American studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of more then twenty books, including Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America and, most recently, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century.