https://www.youtube.com/embed/3_awAF4GjhoHubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Vol. 1, published in 2009). Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Vol. 2, published in December 2020). Both volumes written by Jeffrey B. Perry. New York: Columbia University Press. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs Hubert Henry Harrison had clearly spent too much time on the inside. After years of…
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Murder, Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny. Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny. By Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis. San Francisco: Prison Radio, 385 pp., $27. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs THE ARC OF the radical universe is long, and Abu-Jamal and Vittoria are determined to extend it well into the 21st…
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Les Payne and Tamara Payne. New York: Liverlight. 537 pp., $35. Reviewed by Todd Steven BurroughsIt must be great to be a renowned-but-recently-deceased Black writer, because your half-effort gets a full heaping of praise from the grave. In this case, history is not rhyming, but looping. Again,…
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