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This article aims to explore the frequently overlooked history of the cultural, social and political influence of Afro-Caribbean communities on the United States, and more specifically on African-American communities. The article will be published in two parts. The first part, From the Caribbean to America, A Hidden Legacy, focuses on the history of slavery in North America, its abolition and US …

For decades, Africa has often been portrayed as the place where Marxism supposedly failed, where class dissolved into ethnicity, religion, or spirituality. But what if the more interesting question is not whether Marxism worked in Africa, but how Africa transformed Marxism itself? Starting from Kevin Ochieng Okoth's Red Africa, Naomi Kelechi Di Meo explores the encounter between Marxist thought, …

For decades, the idea of a Soviet-backed Black state in the American South has been dismissed as little more than Cold War conspiracy. Yet behind the propaganda lies a far more complex history, one that reveals how communists, Black radicals, and anti-colonial struggles grappled with questions of race, class, and self-determination in the twentieth century. In this article, Mattia Marzà retraces …