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.
This policy paper makes the case for reviving the Black Panther Party program for community control of the police.
Is big media really concerned for Kobeâs family, friends and community, or with Bryantâs corporate value as a black celebrity, an apolitical athlete and a commodity?
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The author provides a âqueerâ perspective on African identities, politics and economies.
The roots of racial differences have to do with the past treatment of enslaved people in the North as well as the South.
