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Rustin's Challenge: A New Collection of Writing from Bayard Rustin, with Commentaries From Contemporary Writers on the Left
Bayard Rustin, Paul Prescod, Benjamin Y. Fong
2026
Bayard Rustin speaking in front of a crowd

What Is Rustin’s Challenge?

A new book features Bayard Rustin's essays and contemporary reflections on what today's Left can learn from his work.
by Paul Prescod, Benjamin Y. Fong via Damage on February 12, 2026
Black men living in a shanty during the Pullman Car strike.

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.
by Paul Prescod via Jacobin
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on December 6, 2025
Ernest Calloway with the rank-and-file organizing committee of the International Shoe Company, outside the Cherokee Plant.

Ernest Calloway Fused Civil Rights and Class Struggle

Through his work in both the Teamsters and the NAACP, Ernest Calloway embodied the potential of a united labor and civil rights movement.
by Paul Prescod via Jacobin
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on September 4, 2024
African American factory worker assembling an automobile engine.

How the UAW Broke Ford’s Stranglehold Over Black Detroit

The UAW's patient organizing cemented an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.
by Paul Prescod via Jacobin
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on October 23, 2023
Black college students at Morgan State University, 1955.

No, the GI Bill Did Not Make Racial Inequality Worse

Popular narratives say that black veterans got no real benefits from the GI Bill. In truth, the GI Bill provided a rare positive experience with government.
by Paul Prescod via Jacobin
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on April 1, 2023
National civil rights leaders (L-R) John Lewis, Whitney Young Jr, A. Philip Randolph, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, James Farmer, and Roy Wilkins pose behind a banquet table at the Hotel Roosevelt as they meet to formulate plans for the March on Washington and to bring about the passage of civil rights legislation, on July 2, 1963 in New York City. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

The Emancipatory Past and Future of Black Politics

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.
by Paul Prescod via Jacobin
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on January 27, 2020
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