The Black Socrates (II) w/Jeffrey B. Perry

More than 100 years ago a Black skeptic/atheist/agnostic/freethinker from the Danish West Indies framed a conversation on Pan-Africanism, modeled Socialist Black political organizing, advocated for labor rights and progressive Black entertainment in a vaudeville era of American life wreathed in poverty, White Supremacy, World Wars and European Imperialism. This episode continues Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry's presentation on Hubert Harrison-a bridge between Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, The Black Panthers, Occupy Wallstreet and BLM. 

Perry reveals all of these connections on with his account of the life of Harrison known as the "Black Socrates,” a freethinking orator, writer and contemporary in the then Harlem Renaissance. Pitifully unsung, all roads to Arturo Schomburg, A. Phillip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luter King, James Brown, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, The Black Panthers, Sista Soulja (and so many more) therefore, lead directly through Hubert Harrison. 

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(Ep. 12) 

Show Notes

Host: Rogiérs 

Writing & Narration: Rogiérs 

Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC

Assistant Producer, Research: Drai Salmon

Opening performed by Rogiérs, Reginald & Alesandra Ndu

Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC

Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson

Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Fibby Music Recordings, Storyblocks and V.Rich/"Ocean of Love" (Out Now!)

Resources & Mentions

Jeffrey B. Perry, Official Website

"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism", Jeffrey B. Perry (Columbia University Press) *For discount on online bookstore, use “CUP20” at checkout.

David Hilliard describes Black Panther Party origins & Ideological Struggles of Class-Coalition Politics (2006)

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