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Resumen Latinoamericano
Despite the Efforts of the Opposition, Over 8 Million People Voted for the Constituent Assembly in Venezuela
01 Aug 2017
The government of President Nicolás Maduro claims more than 41 percent of registered voters went to the polls to elect candidates for a National Constituent Assembly that will rewrite Venezuela’s Constitution. The right-wing opposition attempted to disrupt the process. “Polls were open until 10pm…
Cuba News Agency
Cuba Has Trained 170 Doctors From the US For Free
08 Aug 2017
by Cuba News Agency
Henning Melber
An Anatomy of the Black South African “Middle Class”
08 Aug 2017
by Henning Melber
Larry Greene
Hubert Harrison: Key Link in the Two Great Trends of the Black Liberation Movement
02 Jul 2010
A review by Larry A. Greene In the first quarter of the 20th century, the major, competing trends of Black American political thought were already in vivid evidence: Black nationalist and socialist tendencies vied with corporate-backed accommodation. In Harlem, an extraordinary St. Croix-born…
Jeffrey B. Perry
Hubert H. Harrison’s When Africa Awakes: The “Inside Story” of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World
21 Dec 2015
by Jeffrey B. Perry The works of the finest mind in early 20th century Harlem, a man who was more class-conscious than Marcus Garvey and more race-conscious than A. Philip Randolph, are now available in a new, expanded Diasporic Africa Press Edition. Hubert H. Harrison was the “Black Socrates,”…
Jeffrey B. Perry
100th Anniversary of Hubert Harrison’s Founding of the Militant “New Negro Movement”
13 Jun 2017
by Jeffrey B. Perry The modern Black liberation movement can be said to have begun with the founding of Hubert Harrison’s Liberty League, in Harlem, a century ago. The League demanded that lynching become a federal crime, and that Blacks defend themselves from racist attack. “Harrison advised ‘…
Jeffrey B. Perry
On the 132nd Anniversary of Pioneering Black Radical Hubert Henry Harrison's Birth...
29 Apr 2015
by Jeffrey B. Perry The same folks who'd have us believe politics is just Republicans and Democrats, and that the current black political class is the culmination of black history have tried to erase the history of black giants like socialist Hubert Henry Harrison, whom historian Joel A. Rogers…
Jeffrey B. Perry
Happy 131st Birthday Hubert Harrison, Giant of Black History
29 Apr 2014
by Jeffrey B. Perry More race conscious than A. Philip Randolph and more class conscious than Marcus Garvey, Hubert H. Harrison’s “ideas on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy anticipated the profound transformative power of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggles of the…
Dr. Jahi Issa , Reggie A. Mabry , Patrick Delices
“Reparations is Dead” Authors Seek to Spark Public Discussion of New Legal Strategy
08 Aug 2017
by Dr. Jahi Issa, Reggie A. Mabry, Patrick Delices The authors elaborate on their contention that activists have bungled the legal battle for reparations. They are willing to debate N’Cobra, December 12th Movement, Dr. Ron Daniels, Assemblyman Charles Barron, Dr. Claude Anderson, Randall Robinson…
Benjamin Woods
The Failure of Negro Leadership
09 Jun 2010
by Benjamin Woods The crisis of Black American leadership is rooted in 1830s and 1840s political strategies designed to convince whites of Black people’s “humanity and worthiness” – an elitist approach that cut the masses of Blacks out of the picture. “In 1920 Harlem radical Hubert Harrison…