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.
Facial masks and Black Lives Matter murals are part of the ever-changing panorama that shapes our perceptions of hierarchy, just as tall buildings do.
Privatization of health care is why some of the wealthiest countries have proved unable to respond rapidly to the pandemic.
The Brits practiced a nonjudicial form of Jim Crow against non-white immigrants from their colonial empire.
We as Black people must keep pushing, organizing, and demanding a Black agenda centered on reparations.
For 350 years, California has imprisoned and disenfranchised its Native peoples like few other places.
