C.L.R. James, a Trinidadian historian, journalist, and socialist, was born on this day. He is best known for his influential work The Black Jacobins (1938), a groundbreaking history of the Haitian Revolution. James was a key intellectual figure in Pan-Africanism and Marxist thought, and his writings have had a lasting impact on postcolonial studies and Black liberation movements worldwide.
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