Adam Raskin, My Brother and Comrade, RIP

Adam Raskin, not long before his death.

It never was easy to be Adam Raskin, an uncommon radical, and the youngest of four brothers born to Mildred and Sam who left the Communist Party in ’48—two years before he arrived in the world, which was in Huntington, Long Island. In 1950, my parents were still communists and remained communists until they died. As a kid, Adam urged them to move into the basement of our house on Rogues Path and to invite a Black family to live in the space they vacated.