Hubert Harrison Author Event

We are delighted to host Dr. Brian Kwoba at Source Booksellers to celebrate his book Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism on Wednesday November 12th, 2025. Professor Anwar Uhuru will be joining the event as the interlocutor. We are grateful to Anwar!

The event will include a rich conversation about the book, a Q &A session and booksigning line. At this link you can get free or book ticket. If your choice is a book ticket, you copy of the book will be ready to pick up at the event.

Who may be interested in attending the event:

Conference attendees

History Buffs

Activists

About the book:

Recovering a pioneer of Black radical thought

The significance of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927)—as a journalist, activist, and educator—lies in his innovation of radical solutions to radical injustices. He witnessed staggering luxury for the few alongside crushing poverty for the many. White mob violence continually haunted Black communities, while imperial conquest and world wars wrought wanton destruction upon entire nations of people. These conditions sparked a global political awakening to which Harrison gave voice as a leading figure in cutting-edge struggles for socialism, internationalism, free love, freethinking, and free speech. He did far more than cultivate the rich, dark soil in which the so-called “Harlem Renaissance” would take root..
Hubert Harrison presents a historical restoration of Harrison’s numerous intellectual and political breakthroughs. Offering a fresh interpretation of his contributions to social movements for economic, racial, and sexual liberation, Brian Kwoba’s richly textured narrative highlights the startling and continued relevance of Harrison’s visionary thinking across generations.

Author Bio: Dr. Brian Kwoba is an associate professor of history and Director of the African and African American Studies Program at the University of Memphis. Over the past two decades, Dr. Kwoba has been an activist on issues including anti-imperialism, immigrant workers rights, climate justice, Falastin, and the movement for Black lives. In his spare time, he is a big time music lover (especially live jazz), an Afrobeats DJ, and a frequent traveler to Kenya where he visits his dad's side of the family.

In conversation : Anwar Uhuru is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Philosophy at Wayne State University. Their work is primarily concerned with affect and effects of social power regarding gender, class, sexuality, and ableism and how it intersects with state-based violence due to social hierarchy. Their research interests include Black Existentialism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Black IntellectualThought, and Aesthetics. Co-editor with Myron M. Beasley "Corporeal Migration and Performance" for the Journal Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. They have publications in the Journal of Hip Hop Studies, The Journal of Philosophy and Global Affairs, APA Studies, Journal of World Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, and Radical Philosophy Review. Their forthcoming book, The Insurrectionist Case for Reparations:Race, Value and Ethics, will be published through SUNY Press.

“Brian Kwoba has written a beautiful, intellectual biography as radical and original as its subject. He excavates Hubert H. Harrison—brilliant Marxist, Black nationalist, internationalist, and gender rebel—revealing dimensions even his most scrupulous chroniclers missed.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

“Captivating and compelling. Many are praised for novel interventions, but few achieve what Kwoba has. Hubert Harrison shifts the ground and sets the standard for twenty-first-century research on Harrison. We owe Kwoba a great debt.”—Tommy J. Curry, University of Edinburgh.

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