Taylor Dorrell
Ina Wood, Oklahoma Communist behind the ‘Union Maid’ song
“Isn’t it about time you wrote a union song for women?” Wood asked Seeger and Guthrie. Although tired from traveling, they sat down to write the new folk anthem.
Paul Robeson: a praise song for the unsung
Paul Robeson was one of the most famous Black Americans of the early 20th century, but McCarthyism ended his career and attempted to purge him from history altogether.
Write, Persist, Struggle: organizing the strength of the proletarian pen
Providing a counter-narrative to that of the capitalist media requires a collective approach to writing, and one that is rooted in working-class experience and struggle.
Langston Hughes: Progressive poet and wanderer
Wandering in Cleveland, Haiti, the USSR, and elsewhere.