Book Review: The Prologue, The Prototype, The O.G. Hater

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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“BLM” Means Black Liberation Movement Not Black Lives Matter w Dhoruba bin-Wahad

Former political prisoner, member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army Dhoruba bin-Wahad was back with us to discuss his latest essay “A History Through the Life of Dhoruba Bin-Wahad” which is meant in part to redirect focus from a hashtag to a movement. We talked also about COINTELPRO, policing, electoral politics, Angela Davis, Black…

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An iMWiL! EXCLUSIVE: Book Excerpt: POLICE FORCED: The Case of Earl Faison, By Lawrence Hamm (with Annette M. Alston)

Thursday night, the People’s Organization for Progress, a New Jersey progressive activist group, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the police killing of a Black man named Earl Faison. He was killed on April 11, 1999 by a revenge-hungry, white-majority police force in Orange, New Jersey, because the police were angry by the killing of…

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