About this Event
Join the People's Forum for an event to introduce Dr. Brian Kwoba's award-winning book, Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism. He will be joined in conversation by Tajee Bounds to explore the many radicalisms of Hubert Harrison, who emerges in the book as one of the most influential and neglected Afro-Caribbean revolutionaries in New York City's history.
After blazing a trail for people of color in the Socialist Party of America, Hubert Harrison emerged as one of the most prominent Black freethinkers and free lovers of his generation. He practiced armed self-defense and called for an anti-capitalist Colored International in the face of European colonialism in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Most spectacularly, Harrison's Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of African people in modern history. Because of his fearless radicalism, however, the full scope of Harrison's revolutionary legacy has been erased from popular memory.
Until now, Dr. Kwoba's book has won the 2026 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and the 2026 Phillis Wheatley Book Award from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage. According to Robin DG Kelley, “Brian Kwoba has written a beautiful, intellectual biography as radical and original as its subject."
Dr. Kwoba is a professor of history and director of African and African American Studies at the University of Memphis. Over the past 22 years, Dr. Kwoba has been an activist on issues including anti-imperialism, immigrant workers’ rights, climate justice, decolonizing education, Falastin, and the movement for Black lives. Tajee Bounds is the membership and volunteer coordinator for the People's Forum and a community organizer in New Jersey.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The People's Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, United States
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