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.
King believed humanity could achieve a âhigher synthesisâ that rose above the social relations of capitalism and communism.
Some Greens may fall for the âanybody blue will doâ appeal, but most will not.
Storming âThTownâsâ morning dew like badged vermin Creeping from bent mist morning light, just before five Barking cold commands in Pig Latinâor German?
Their true crime is their brilliant defense of international law, and Venezuelaâs sovereign right to self-determination against Yankee imperialism.
The cops canât find white terrorists in plain sight, but they have turned technology to the task of criminalizing Black and Left dissent.
