The second volume on the life and works of Hubert Harrison, the Harlem-based activist, organizer and journalist, is about to be released. Biographer Jeff Perry has spent almost four decades researching Harrison, who he described as âa socialist who worked closely with Marcus Garvey and was the first to write about the âNew Negroâ in the first quarter of the 20th century.â Harrison deserves to be in the pantheon of formative Black political thinkers and doers, but his principled politics, unsparing journalistic critiques, and refusal to be bought earned him few boosters.
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This weekâs featured author is Brittnay L. Proctor. Her book is "Minnie Ripertonâs Come to My Garden."
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Norman Finkelstein was a highly respected academic, but his latest book is a racist "544-page temper tantrum."
