"Solidarity with the Most Oppressed Peoples of the Earth": The Boston Chronicle and Black Internationalist Print Culture, 1945–60.

This article examines the Boston Chronicle, a Black-edited daily newspaper founded by Caribbean immigrants, and its editorial politics during the 1940s and 1950s amid intense U.S. and global anticommunist repression. It highlights the Chronicle's sustained leftist internationalism, linking Black freedom struggles in the United States with anticolonial movements in the British Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America, despite government surveillance and political pressures. Key figures such as associate editor William Harrison and columnist Tom Blair contributed to the paper's coverage of global anticolonial activism, critiques of U.S. anticommunism, and grassroots movements like the Minute Women for Peace. The Chronicle's blend of local news and internationalist perspectives illustrates a diasporic Black print culture that bridged local and global concerns, offering an alternative to more mainstream Black newspapers that often muted such critiques during the Cold War.