W.E.B. Du Bois
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Prominent African-American intellectual whose radicalization after witnessing racial violence led him to embrace Marxist-socialist ideas and meet with African liberators in 1945.
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Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #170
Lex Fridman
An American polymath whose book 'The Souls of Black Folk' profoundly influenced Sullivan and is recommended as a sophisticated introduction to Black American history.

Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #311
Lex Fridman
Prominent African-American intellectual whose radicalization after witnessing racial violence led him to embrace Marxist-socialist ideas and meet with African liberators in 1945.