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.
Anti-Blackness is the common denominator underlying Black peopleās high rates of death from poverty, disease and police violence on both continents of the western hemisphere, said Jame
For the 12th consecutive year, the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will march on the White House, November 7, this time under the themes āBlack Power Matters,
The incoherence of the Biden-Trump debate will be repeated every election cycle until Blacks and progressives break with the corporate duopoly.
A majority of New York City cops are non-white, but their union endorsed the re-election of Donald Trump, with no loud protest from the darker ranks.
Reactions to the Breonna Taylor murder, settlement and verdict all have one thing in common: Black peopleās inability to protect our lives.
