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.
The United States and the United Nations are responsible for the ongoing plight of Rwandan refugees.
Grim predictions about the U.S. military occupation of Africa are realized.
Activists secure a legal victory in the fight to save the Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland.
Recent debates about Critical Race Theory (CRT) have been abysmally uninformed at best and utterly inaccurate at worst.
Bird, strings, Big Chief: 100: Harlem (For Charlie Parker/Donald Harrison/Harlem Symphony Orchestra) Gathering witnesses bearing beautiful collisionsā
