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      1. Lovett Fort-Whiteman was a Black Communist organizer who experienced the Soviet Union first as a respite from and counter to American racism, and ultimately as a prisoner worked to death in its Gulag. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/a-black-communists-disappearance-in-stalins-russia-lovett-fort-whiteman-gulag
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      Lots of beautiful detail in this story, like the impact of Russians yielding their seat to him on a tram, and his numerous cultural and educational opportunities as an exile.
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    A significant step towards Fort-Whiteman's ultimate condemnation by Stalinism was his advocacy for seeing race as working alongside class, including from a podium of the Comintern.
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      Ultimately, though, independent thought and independent reading circles, as well as a Black comrades allegations of his unorthodoxy seem to have sent him into exile, and later the labor camps that worked him to death.
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