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May 7, 2009

Hubert Harrison as book reviewer

Scott McLemee’s piece on the Columbia Journalism Review Web site explores Hubert Harrison’s role as a book reviewer and critic. Harrison is of course the subject of Jeffrey Perry’s new biography, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, which...

April 17, 2009

Jeffrey Perry — A DIY Scholar

The Princeton Alumni Weekly recently ran a great article on Do-it-yourself scholars. Among the scholars portrayed in the article is Jeffrey Perry author of the acclaimed and recently published biography Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry’s new...

January 22, 2009

The End of Black History? — By Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn are the co-editors of The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 Some pundits have predicted that Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States spells the end of...

January 21, 2009

Jeffrey Perry on History News Network

On Monday, History News Network published “The Growing Interest in Hubert Harrison,” by Jeffrey Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry begins the essay discussing Harrison’s relevance at the dawn of the administration of America’s...

December 10, 2008

"The Most Exciting and Eagerly Awaited Title from a Scholarly Press." — Scott McLemee on Hubert Harrison, by Jeffrey Perry

Scott McLemee qualifies this remark somewhat in his Inside Higher Ed article on Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, admitting that he has been eagerly awaiting this title and he explains why in the article and the accompanying...

November 21, 2008

What Can Be Learned from The Great Depression — A Post by Frederick Douglass Opie.

The following post is from Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America. After the further unraveling of the global economy in October of 2008, the jobless numbers will be much higher. In response,...

November 20, 2008

Writing Hubert Harrison — A Post by Jeffrey Perry

The following post is by Jeffrey B. Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. You can also read his previous post “Who Was Hubert Harrison?”. Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 is the first...

November 13, 2008

Black Familial Mourning and Local Presidents: An Election Chronicle, by Houston Baker

The following essay is by Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University and author the recently published Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. “A week of rest and reflection has sobered...

November 11, 2008

Who Was Hubert Harrison?: A Post by Jeffrey B. Perry

The following post is by Jeffrey B. Perry, author of the just-published Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918: Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic,...

October 22, 2008

Frederick Douglass Opie Discusses Soul Food on NPR

Is soul food healthy? What was the connection between soul food and the Black Power movement of the 1960s? How did European exploration affect West African food? These are just some of the questions that Frederick Douglass Opie, author of...

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