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.
To commemorate Black August, read Safiya Bukhari's essay on political prisoners and political movements. Her words resonate today.
Kamala Harrisās vaunted āenvironmental justice unitā prosecuted only the most trivial violations in San Franciscoās toxic Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
"Oz-low Piece Process v. Sugar Hill Play-date ā¦" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Waves of uprisings are spreading across the African continent and the masses are demanding freedom from imperialist powers and the comprador leaders that enable their ongoing exploitation. There areā¦
Immediately after Joe Biden announced that he would not seek re-election and instead endorsed Kamala Harris, she was anointed as the Democratic Party presidential nominee with little analysis of herā¦
