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.
Hollywood is big, mostly white, capitalist business, so itās no surprise that its new film on Fred Hampton provides little information on Black Panther politics and history.
Almost 20 years ago, the president elected by Haitiās poor majority gave the United Nations a lesson in the meaning of democracy for historically oppressed peoples.
Liars, liars your loaded dice/tilted table theaterās on fireā But prosecutors and gas-lighting lawyers concur on Empireā¦
Rwandans around the world celebrate the life of the nationās most popular singer, apparently killed for opposing Paul Kagameās ethnic and military dictatorship, writes Ann Garrison.
This week color-blindness on the left and the Black Misleadership Class were on your minds.
