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"If We Must Die, Let It Not Be Like Hogs" - Winston James on Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (part 1)

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

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McKay's New Negro Movement

The poem is about basically if we're going to die we have to fight back. And it became the, you know what people refer to as anthem of the new Negro movement. It was also an expression of the level of determination and resistance that was there among the black population at the time.

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