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.
Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be âEvacuatedâ
In a recent article, Dr Natasha Howard, a lecturer in Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, cited the campusâs âThree Peoplesâ mural as exemplifying the state
âWhen we think weâve made progress, we are blinded to the ways we have not,â and wind up affirming our slave-like relationship to power, said Anthony Farley, a Visiting Profes
âThe coronavirus is a death sentence on Black people,â who make up two-thirds of Louisianaâs prisoners, said Belinda Parker Brown, head of Louisiana United International.
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