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I was included in an email thread to his friends and mainly directed to the guitarist Kelvyn Bell on Dec. 8, 2016 and explaining why he would not be able to honor an invitation. “Kelvyn,” he began, “...you know I’d join the set if I was in the country...but I don’t plan to be in NY until after the THAW! Meantime, enjoy the HOLIDAZE and the Event which I’m sure will be very leavening for the spirit... right along here in the era of AFFIRMATIVE RACISM!” Evident here is Harrison’s typical linguistic flair and a way of personalizing and addressing some of the common issues of the day.
THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS January 20, 2022 - January 26, 2022 • 29 And the “thaw” is an ob- engaged in the art and pol- ble U.N. of friends and asso- next teaching post was at the vious indication he was at itics of Greenwich Village, ciates and began seriously University of Massachusetts, that point somewhere in a spending time with Amiri pursuing a writing career Amherst from which he was warmer clime. But to be in- Baraka, Ted Joans, Billy with screenplays and essays. later professor emeritus. His vited to a jazz event was an- Dee Williams and a cote- From 1968 to 1970, he taught film scripts include “Lord other vector of his interests, rie of jazz musicians. After a theater at Howard Universi- Shango” (1975) and “Youngand music, like dance, was stint at New York Universi- ty, where such aspiring writ- blood” (1978) (not to be connever too far from his liter- ty, he transferred to Indiana ers and actresses as Phylicia fused with the novel by John ary and theatrical pursuits. University in 1953 where he Rashad and Pearl League Oliver Killens). In 2004, during an inter- continued his association were among his students. Harrison was hired by the view with HistoryMakers, with artists and musicians It was also an environment Theatre Center of Chicago’s Harrison discussed in detail such as David Baker and steeped in radical ideas and Columbia College in 1976 his odyssey that began Freddie Hubbard. movements, all of which sub- where he served as profesMarch 1, 1936, in New York By 1957, he had earned a stantially touched Harrison. sor and writer-in-residence where he was born. That B.A. in psychology and reAfter his stay at Howard, until his retirement in 2002. Harrison acquired a poly- turned to New York and five he began teaching at the Along with his teaching at glot of cultural influences years later had an M.A. in State University of Cali- Columbia he directed ETA’s was unavoidable since both psychology and phenome- fornia at Sacramento, and acclaimed production of his parents from the Caro- nology from the New School subsequently wrote and di- Marsha Leslie’s “The Trial linas were involved in the of Social Research. He set rected “Tabernacle” and of One Short Sighted Black Garvey movement, the AME aside plans for a higher Melvin Van Peebles’ “Ain’t Woman” (1996) and “DoxolChurch, and the Gullah tra- degree, beginning his intrep- Supposed to Die a Natural ogy” (2002). dition. He attended P.S. 113 id ventures abroad to Spain Death.” In 1973, his own play His death was confirmed and graduated from Com- and the Netherlands. While “The Great MacDaddy” was by his daughter, Fonteyn merce High School in 1952. living in Amsterdam he was produced by the NEC, earn- Harrison. No cause has been As a teenager he was deeply in the company of a verita- ing him an Obie Award. His determined.
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