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Biography of a Largely Forgotten Black Political Giant
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
01 Sep 2020
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Margaret Kimberley Ā· Biography of a Largely Forgotten Black Political Giant

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 ā€œa socialist who worked closely with Marcus Garvey and was the first to write about the ā€˜New Negro’ 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.


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