Thank you Alan, In case you didn't see last month's marxmail discussion about Donald Harris, i've copied below an aspect that might interest you.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 4:32 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > NY Times, Aug. 21, 2020 > Kamala Harris’s Father, a Footnote in Her Speeches, Is a Prominent Economist > By Ellen Barry . . . > His work was followed closely in Jamaica, said Renee Anne Shirley, who was an adviser to Jamaica’s prime minister in the early 2000s, a period when Dr. Harris served as an economic consultant to the government. > > She recalled reading Dr. Harris’s dispatches from the United States as far back as 1965, when he published a lengthy article about Malcolm X in The Sunday Gleaner. > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 5:52 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <daynegoodwin= [email protected]> wrote: > > Malcolm X: the man and his mission > by Donald J. Harris > https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1965-04-04/page-7/ > > Maybe someone else can manage to make the article available to us. On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 7:20 AM Alan Ginsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/kamala-harris-parents.html > > (Harris's parents were involved in a radical study group in Berkeley. > Other participants included Huey Newton and future Marxist historian Cedric > Robinson. Aside from anything about Harris and her parents, the article has > a great deal of information about a significant formation in Berkeley that > I knew nothing about.) > > "How Kamala Harris's Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other in a > Black Study Group" > > Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan grew up under British colonial rule on > different sides of the planet. They were each drawn to Berkeley, and became > part of an intellectual circle that shaped the rest of their lives. > > By Ellen Barry > Sept. 13, 2020 > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1545): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1545 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76818947/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
