[via wikipedia] ...Davis used his newspaper platform to call for
integration of the sports world, and he began to engage himself with
community organizing efforts, starting a Chicago labor newspaper, The
Star, toward the end of World War II. In 1947, the Spokane Daily
Chronicle called the paper "a red weekly" saying that it "has most of
the markings of a Communist front publication."[7] The Chicago Star had
a goal to "promote a policy of cooperation and unity between Russia and
the United States"[8] seeking to "[avoid] the red-baiting tendencies of
the mainstream press."[9]
In 1945, he taught one of the first jazz history courses in the United
States, at the Abraham Lincoln School[10] in Chicago.
In 1948, Davis and his second wife, who had married in 1946, moved to
Honolulu, Hawaii. It is frequently reported that the move was at the
suggestion of Davis's friend Paul Robeson who praised its multiracial
culture,[11], although in a in a 1974 interview with Black World/Negro
Digest, Davis states that the move was because of a magazine article his
wife had read.[12]During this time Hawaii was going through a
non-violent revolution between colored labor workers and the white elite
known as the Democratic Revolution. There, Davis operated a small
wholesale paper business, Oahu Papers, which burned in March 1951. In
1959, he started another similar firm, the Paradise Paper Company.
Davis also wrote a weekly column, called "Frank-ly Speaking", for the
Honolulu Record, a labor paper published by the International Longshore
and Warehouse Union (ILWU) headed by Harry Bridges.[13] Davis' first
column noted he was a member of the national executive board of the
Civil Rights Congress,[14][citation needed] The paper had been founded
in 1948 by Koji Ariyoshi , and closed in 1958. Davis's early columns
covered labor issues, but he broadened his scope to write about cultural
and political issues, especially racism. He also included the history of
blues and jazz in his columns.
While in Hawaii, Davis broadened from a Black Power philosophy to
include what Dinesh D'Sousa calls "a wider currents of oppression and
subjugation."[11] He became one of the first promoters of the concept of
a "raceless" society based on his belief that race as a biological or
social construct was illogical and a fallacy.
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