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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Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest For Justice. Nkechi Taifa. Foreword by Greg Carr. Washington, D.C.: House of Songhay II., 379 pp. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs Back in the days when radicalism was the norm in Black America and elsewhere, there once was a girl who sat on a Black Panther’s lap, abandoned…
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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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