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 weekâs featured author is Musab Younis. Younis is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. His book is On the Scale of the WorldâŚ
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made and then tried to walk-back comments which supported banning abortion in some circumstances. But he's stuck with his own words and the supposedly anti-establishmentâŚ
Peru's coup regime enhances its alliance with the U.S. with visits to Washington and arms supplies to Ukraine.
Every empire falls and the fantasy of American exceptionalism doesn't exempt the U.S. from inevitable decline. Yet the failing hegemon behaves as though it still controls events, andâŚ
The author explains why the Ivory Coast has joined the U.S. plan to take part in a possible ECOWAS invasion of Niger. There is a long history of antagonism between the two states and Ivory CoastâŚ
