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.
âIt's like writing history with lightning.â â Woodrow Wilson on Birth of A Nation
Du Bois, the father of Pan Africanism and the towering theorist of race, was â just as importantly -- one of the great theorists of communism.
Trump threw a monkey wrench into the capitalist systemâs population management machine.
âThe Squad Wonât Fight Pelosi and Corporate Powerâ by Glen Ford
This book is a story about a group of (mostly) women who wanted to make change and understood that liberation is an inside job.
