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.
Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to itâs more sensual and less formal cousin, black music.
Spending time in worlds of the past opens a window on how things changed, or stubbornly remained unchanged.
New Jersey was the site of a young Dr Kingâs very first formal protest and lawsuit, but the state refuses to recognize the events.
Recent population trends indicate that the city may be at risk of losing its status as a Black mecca.
On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinnâs death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade â including whether he would have voted fo
