Martin Bernal

This is how the New York Times remembers Martin Bernal:  "Martin Gardiner Bernal was born on March 10, 1937, in London to John Desmond Bernal, a prominent British scientist and radical political activist, and Margaret Gardiner, a writer. His parents never married, a fact their son asserted with some pride in interviews.  “My father was a communist and I was illegitimate,” he said in 1996. “I was always expected to be radical because my father was.”"