Red Emma’s

From their editorial statement:

We are inspired by the courageous Black Communists in Alabama whose lives and struggles to organize against capitalism and white supremacist terror in the 1930s and 1940s are memorialized in Robin D. G. Kelley’s book Hammer and Hoe, from which we take our name.

We will envision collectively what a better future might look like and the strategies that could get us there. Such an undertaking compels us to deepen our knowledge of history, politics, culture, and our own movements.

Our aim is to build a project whose politics and aesthetics reflect the electric spirit of the protesters who flooded the streets in 2020, a project that breathes life into the transformative ideas pointing us toward the world we deserve.

Come join us. We have a world to win.

Derecka Purnell is a lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and trainings in community based organizations through an abolitionist framework. She is a member of the editorial board of Hammer & Hope.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Táíwò’s theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, anti-colonial thought, German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, and histories of activism and activist thinkers. He is the author of Elite Capture _and Reconsidering Reparations. He is a member of the editorial board of _Hammer & Hope.

Astra Taylor is cofounder of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors. She is the director of numerous documentaries and the author of Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea (with Leah Hunt-Hendrix), The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, _and The People’s Platform (winner of an American Book Award), among other works. Her writing has appeared in periodicals including The New Yorker, The New York Times, n+1, and _The Baffler. She is an advisor to Lux Magazine and is on the editorial board of Hammer & Hope. She was the 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer.