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 āa socialist who worked closely with Marcus Garvey and was the first to write about the āNew Negroā in the first quarter of the 20th century.ā 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.
Any act of solidarity with the Haitian people in the Dominican Republic is blocked by the national police force and Neo-Nazi groups.
United States "aid" to Afghanistan covers up the theft of that nation's assets and the resulting suffering of its population. The Black Alliance for Peace Afghanistan News Update explains.
The world needs a new United Nations. Its current formation gives great power to a handful of nations, ignores most of the world, and is ineffectual in addressing issues such as the climateā¦
The undercount of communities of color worsened in the 2020 census, the 20th commemoration of Gabriel's Rebellion at the African Burial Ground in Richmond, Virginia, and the quest for justice forā¦
