INTIMATE POLITICS

At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her familys politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her fa ther, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, testified on television in front of the House on Un-American Activ ities Committee in 1953. Born into one of the most influential U.S. Communist families whose friends included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bettina lived her parents politics witnessing first-hand one of the most dramatic upheavals i n American...[Read more]