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Posts tagged with "africana studies"
A Super Funky Soul Power Tribute to Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Jan. 4 | We spent this hour in tribute to Dr. John Henrik Clarke. Our guests included Drs. James Turner, Marimba Ani, Greg Carr and Mark Bolden all of whom engaged in a commemorative reflection on the life, work, lineage and prescience of Dr. Clarke whose 98th...
WPFW v. Pacifica! Also: A Report from the Dorothy Cotton Institute Delegation to Palestine
Dec. 15 | Tom Porter and Katea Stitt were back with us for part one of this week’s show to discuss the latest in the WPFW/Pacifica unrest. We aired some audio from the recent town hall meeting held in hostile response to John Hughes’ imposed changes....
Afrikan Education and the On-Going Crisis of Culture and Consciousness
Oct. 19 | Master teacher Dr. Rusty Shacklestein, and later Dr. Hate, joined this week’s edition of The Super Funky Soul Power Hour discuss the crisis of Afrikan education. Dr. Shacklestein is an experienced educator with time spent as both teacher and...
The Continuing Imperative of Black Studies w Sundiata Cha-Jua
Apr. 1 | We were joined this morning by Dr. Sundiata Cha-Jua for a discussion of the continuing imperative of Black Studies. Cha-Jua is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois and current president of the...
Black Studies and the Canary in Our National Mine
Dec. 14 | Cornell University’s Provost announced recently that the Africana Studies and Research Center would no longer report directly to his office as it has done for the last 41 years. The center will no longer retain its relative autonomy as a department...
The White Architects of Black Education: A Special Edition Replay
Nov. 6 | The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power 1865-1954 by author Dr. William H. Watkins was this week’s topic. Today’s “problems” with education are by no means an accidental. They are the preordained result of...
A Tribute to Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Jul. 27 | We paid tribute to Dr. John Henrik Clarke (January 1, 1915 – July 16, 1998) this week with Dr. Ahati N.N. Toure. Clarke was a seminal figure in the development of Black/Africana Studies, a colleague and member of Malcolm X’s “historical...
Dr. John Henrik Clarke Remembered
Jul. 12 | We had planned to pay tribute to Dr. John Henrik Clarke (January 1, 1915 – July 16, 1998) this week but were preempted by Pacifica’s coverage of the Sotomayor hearings. We will be joined by Drs. Ahati Toure and Marimba Ani July 27, 2009...
Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr on Black Power
Apr. 3 | Last week the Smithsonian hosted a symposium on the impact of the Black Power Movement on the United States. Dr. Carr’s summary of “the living tradition” offered a perfect and necessary overview of the historical, contemporary and...
