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 Black Misleaders give the impression of exercising black empowerment when they are in fact only promoting themselves.
While liberals celebrate Biden and Cuomo at brunch, the situation for the growing class of āhave-notsā in the U.S. and around the world becomes more grim.
Few records survive of the birth of a national anti-police repression organization formed by supporters of Angela Davis ā but government spies preserved Davisā speech.
Covid-19 is a convenient excuse for governments to ban or restrict activities they donāt like.
It was the Latino Voteā¦ No, it was the Latinix vote! No, it was Black Women! No, it was LGBTQ+ Black Women! No, it was Red State Soccer Moms!
