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.
Hampton's body was dragged from the bloodstained bed to the hallway floor, to be displayed as the raiders' trophy âHe's good and dead now."
Anti-communists used the full powers of the state to silence, imprison, or deport radical Black activists.
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The U.S. military claims it is âgreen,â but what the Pentagon is really trying to prove is the planetary sustainability of war.
