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 critics want to wipe clear the actual history of racial oppression that is baked into the social and economic structures of the US.
The police as they exist today need to be abolished, thereâs no question. âDiversity doesnât change the fundamental dynamics of policing.â
Much of what is called the âleftâ still insists that the American ârevolutionâ of 1776 is âunfinished,â when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result.
Most people contribute to injustice not as direct perpetrators but as indirect participants who enable, perpetuate, benefit from, and inherit histories of violence and contemporary systems of explo
The inhabitation of the un-gender-specific and âfungibleâ also mapped the affective grounds for imagining other qualities of life and being for those marked by and for captivity.
