In Class with Carr

The enemies of our common humanity work hard to shape and distort memory for this reason, above all others. Remembering that we have defeated oppressive conditions, movements and moments when we come together in sufficient number is the first step to defeating them again and building the spaces and societies we want for ourselves and others. When we do this our way, we win. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https:...

Election Day is here for most of the United States. Voting options are open across the country. Millions have already voted and millions more will vote before November 5th, the final day to vote. US Presidential candidates always fight over federal policymaking within and beyond the borders of the U.S. state, but the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has the potential to determine outsized...

Election Day is here for most of the United States. Voting options are open across the country. Millions have already voted and millions more will vote before November 5th, the final day to vote. US Presidential candidates always fight over federal policymaking within and beyond the borders of the U.S. state, but the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has the potential to determine outsized...

Election Day is here for most of the United States. Voting options are open across the country. Millions have already voted and millions more will vote before November 5th, the final day to vote. US Presidential candidates always fight over federal policymaking within and beyond the borders of the US state, but the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has the potential to determine outsized c...

This week we continue our exploration of Ta Nehisi Coates’s book of essays, “The Message,” and reactions to it. As the US Presidential election approaches, we use themes evoked in the book as points of entry to ask how social structures mediate, shape and often dictate how we engage in governance dialogue and decision making, including what we believe is true and how we decide what is and isn’t im...

What happens when justice is delayed? If for too long, or with too effective a prolong opposition, is it inevitable that it be permanently denied? If it is accurate that “politics is the art of the possible but art creates the possible of politics,” as Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in his book “The Message, what is the responsibility of the artist to imagine not only transforming positive social change...

The first “post-COVID” US presidential election is upon us. As most of the people in the world have endured national elections, it is the US’s turn in a year that has seen or will see the majority of the world’s people experience national elections, from Senegal to Sri Lanka, from Mexico to Mozambique, from India to the European Union. But the pandemic has receded and life cycles beset with perpet...

The contemporary US and global Social Structure, like the formations that preceded it, shape mass opinion with words, frequently without proof of fact and increasingly it seems without sustained thinking. What happens when the word is given on a subject, a person, the meaning of an event or an era? What is a word? What is the word? What does the word of celebrity mean in fact, if anything? What do...

On the 61st anniversary of the 1963 Birmingham Murders, a week that saw whitelash to the first (and only?) Harris-Trump debate and the 53rd annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference, we consider strategies for pursuing justice claims and liberation work in order to build a vastly improved society in the current Social Structure? This week’s question: How do we respond to absurdity,...

Annual late summer rites of ritual combat—football season—converge this year with the four-year cycle of federal presidential election season. As the first (and only?) presidential debate looms, has the shakeup at the top of the Democratic ticket led to much appreciable change in the US Social Structure? The answer: It’s Debatable. This week, as we prepare to undertake the second iteration of our...

Marking the one hundredth anniversary of Baldwin’s birth and preparing to offer the second iteration of Introduction to Africana Studies in Knubia this September, today’s session explores some of the ways that studying experiences and circumstances of African people requires us to see beyond ourselves, to see our interdependency, and to avoid traps built on political and social exclusion. JOIN KNA...

We review the 2024 Democratic National Convention and its emphasis on “unity,” “joy” and “multicultural patriotism” as Trump and the GOP intensify their voter-suppression gamble on selling a vision of a white nationalist patriarchy and the international landscape that could alter the race continues to shift. The third Saturday in Black August comes one day after the United Nations’ “International...

Returning from Kemet [Egypt], this week’s session draws its title and focus from Black August’s admonition to “study, fast, train and fight.” As 2024’s tumultuous and transformative season of world and US politics continues to unfold, we ask ourselves the critical question raised by Africana Cultural Meaning-Makers from Earth Wind and Fire to Michael Jackson, among many others: Do we remember the...

Coming from Aswan, Egypt, on Elephantine Island, this is the final leg of our annual three region study tour of Kemet. One of the questions raised by our Africana Studies Framework is the question of perspective and intent: when people have the same material facts, how and why we interpret them helps define how we live our lives and work, sometimes for a better society and sometimes to counter the...

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Inside of a week, US Presidential cycle electoral politics shifted in response to Democratic Party insider politics. The newly-birthed Kamala Harris for President campaign draws comparisons to Barack Obama for President campaign before it. But much has changed since 2008, in African America and in the world it influences and that is influenced by it. The world changes when we gather intentionally...

As the Biden/Harris administration works toward reelection, a core of opponents works against the clock and the odds to stop it. Why? Meanwhile, the GOP convened to escalate and beatify its complete capitulation to a reality show circus. Who benefits? Who suffers? And what are we going to do about it? JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these cl...

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This week, which opened with Trump v. US and which the commercial news media quickly continued to drown out with “Biden should quit/should Biden quit” manufactured noise instead of “Supreme Court abets open fascism and supports an open fascist headed for reinstatement” has been hellbent on having people ignore what they can see and discern with their own eyes. Like the impact of global warming (Hu...

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