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.
In an article in Black Agenda Report titled âFrom Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism,â Too Black, a writer and poet based in Indianapolis, reported that âmost Greenwood Bla
âDefundingâ the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police â a righteous demand â must also ensure that all government functions addre
The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world.
The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.â
Ethiopian American activist and community organizer Benyam Kitaw tells Ann Garrison that US hostility toward Ethiopia could lead to further sanctions, economic pressure, and perhaps even war.
