Eugene Puryear (born February 28, 1986) is a left-wing[1] American journalist, writer, activist, politician, and host on BreakThrough News.

In 2014, Puryear ran as a D.C. Statehood Green Party candidate for the At-Large City Council seat held at the time by Anita Bonds.

[6] Among the book's perspectives is a critique of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, which Puryear writes does not attend to the historical transformations of white supremacy and capitalism.

[14] As a freshman at Howard in 2005, Puryear was interviewed by The Washington Post as an "activist-in-training" and cited his engagement with activism against gentrification, racism, the US occupation of Iraq and other issues.

[17][18][19] He was recorded giving a speech in which he defended the Re’im music festival massacre, saying, "And as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters, and I'm sure they're doing very fine despite what the New York Post says".