Hubert Harrison was an immensely influential but underrecognized Black radical who lived and organized in Harlem at the turn of the twentieth century.

As part of our Black History Month programming, today Thursday host Allen Ruff talks to historian and biographer Jeffrey B. Perry about Hubert Harrison’s life, his perspectives on race and class, and his impact as a racial justice leader of his time.

Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent, working-class scholar formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883–1918 (Columbia University Press, 2009) and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927 (Columbia University Press, 2020).