Socialism 2026

Rev. Dr. Nyle Fort is a minister, organizer, and scholar who believes in the transformative power of love, servant leadership, and beloved community. With over 15 years of experience in community organizing, faith-based activism, and large-scale social movements, he has organized in cities, on college... Read More →

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, legal scholar, and the author of the bestselling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, which helped to shift the national discourse on the U.S. criminal punishment system and inspired racial justice organizing nationwide.  She is a former associate professor of law at Stanford Law School and The Ohio State University, and the former director of the Racial Justice... Read More →

For nearly three decades, writer, musician, poet, director, and actor Saul Williams has occupied a singular place in Black culture, resisting the confines of genre across music, literature and film, and using art as a transformative device.

Raised between church traditions, hip hop, revolutionary literature and the liberating chaos of downtown poetry scenes, Williams learned early that speaking over music could carry the same emotional force as singing. He traces the lineage through Black church sermons, through... Read More →

Dr. Rami Nashashibi is a MacArthur Fellow, sociologist trained at the University of
Chicago, and the founding executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network
(IMAN). Since its founding in 1997, IMAN has fostered health, wellness, and healing on
Chicago's South Side and... Read More →