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.
The Middle Eastās only real weapons of mass destruction are Zionism, U.S. imperialism, and Israelās nuclear arsenalāa toxic trifecta fueling endless war.
"City of Angels" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
From ICE courtroom ambushes to sheriffs' execution threats, America's domestic repression now openly wields the tools it honed in overthrowing foreign governments.
Homelessness isnāt policy failureāitās policy. From 19th-century British 'clearings' to todayās police sweeps and Blackstone evictions, the playbook stays the same: displace the poor, privatize theā¦
To honor Kwame Ture is to condemn Zionism. Yet the lecture bearing his name platformed a speaker who calls anti-Zionism 'hate', erasing Tureās clarity that Palestineās liberation is inseparable fromā¦
