[2] Hamlin is featured in the documentary Finally Got The News which documents the formation, movement practices, and philosophy of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW), a Marxist–Leninist organization of Black workers in Detroit[3] that he co-founded.
Hamlin attended the University of Michigan before being forced to end his studies as a result of limited financial means.
Upon return in 1960, Hamlin landed a job at the Detroit News assisting drivers.
The role of the Inner City Voice community in shaping the emergent Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (1968) and League of Revolutionary Black Workers (1968) has been documented in numerous periodicals, books, and academic scholarship.
In the updated edition of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying Hamlin explains, "What distinguished the League of Revolutionary Black Workers was that we were able to engage masses of black workers at a time when people didn't know how to approach or mobilize them".