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.
The question is not if teargas breath thugs weaponizing COVID; co-signing starvation; stage whispering, âLock her up!â ripping children from mothersâ armsâsplintering
A fact-based, crowd-funded film on urban devastation and gang warfare in the South Bronx packs a bigger political punch than the cult classic, The Warriors.
Comparing Trump to European fascists often ignores the fact that racial slavery created its own unique form of fascism.
This week Covid-19, Left solidarity, and the duopoly were on your minds.
We are in a time zone wherein the problematic of queerness is being emancipated through story telling.
