Book Launch Event with discussions, music & food
Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Winner of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award for 2026
Book Launch Event
Saturday 7th March 2026, 5pm-9pm
Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St, Oxford, OX1 1HH
Entry free / donation: all welcome!
Author Dr. Brian Kwoba in discussion with Michelle Codrington and Nigel Carter on his new book on scholar-activist Hubert Harrison, legend of the Harlem Renaissance
Event also includes:
Musical performance by Andre Jahnoi
Tamarind Galaxy - interactive workshop on African-American astronomy with Natty Mark Samuels
Food provided
About the book
Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism is an intellectual biography of the working-class journalist, activist, and educator Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927), who generated an array of visionary solutions to the systemic injustices of his day. After blazing a trail for people of color in the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Harrison emerged as one of the most prominent freethinkers and free lovers of his generation. He practiced armed self-defense and called for an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist "Colored International" alliance in the face of European colonialism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. 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.
Watch trailer here! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yPRYhs7dzE4MidUFDsvp6pYJh2QM74YL/view
About the speakers
Dr Brian Kwoba is Associate Professor of History and Director of African and African American Studies (AAAS) at the University of Memphis.
Michelle Codrington is anti-racism policy lead for the TUC and was the first Black president of the teachers’ union NASUWT.
Nigel Carter is community organiser, decolonial researcher and co-founder of Oxford Community Action.
Natty Mark Samuels is founder of African School, an accessible and inter-generational educational initiative focusing on the history of Africa and the diaspora
Event supported by:
Fusion Arts
African School
Afrikan/ Afrikan-Caribbean Kultural Heritage Initiative
Oxfordshire Community Education Group
Unlock the Chains Collective
Oxford Community Action
