Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation

Due to demand, we are uploading past Free School sessions and will resume uploads to Spotify. We discuss Malcolm X's 100th birth anniversary, and its significance at this time for the history of the U. S. empire.

Due to demand, we are uploading past Free School sessions and will resume uploads to Spotify. We reflect on our symposium on the revolutionary music of Ellington, Mingus Sun Ra and Bootsy.

Due to demand, we are uploading past Free School sessions and will resume uploads to Spotify. We discuss the movie "Sinners" by Ryan Coogler, and the struggle for ideological clarity at this time. We also share more of our preparations for the symposium on Ellington, Mingus, Sun Ra and Bootsy.

We discuss our upcoming symposium titled "Seizing Our Future: The Revolutionary Music of Ellington, Mingus, Sun Ra and Bootsy", to be held on May 10th and 11th at the Church of the Crucifixion, Philadelphia.

We discuss the significance of recent attacks on the universities by the Trump administration. We also discuss the upcoming music symposium, and the upcoming Issue 4 of Avant-Garde: A Journal of Peace, Democracy and Science.

We discuss the effects of the ongoing policies of the Trump administration and the fate of the U. S. empire.

We continue our discussion of W.E.B. Du Bois as the original thinker of a new movement of world thought.

We discuss W. E. B. Du Bois and a new world movement of thought, and its relationship to the disintegration of the American Empire.

We discuss our preparations for the closing of, and the significance of, the Year of James Baldwin, titled 'Celebrating Our Forever Revolutionary James Baldwin', which commenced at 2.30 pm on March 8th.

We discuss the epistemologies of prominent thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Sachs and others, and its significance in understanding this moment of beginning of the end of the American Empire.

We discuss the significance of the Trump administration's role in ending war in Europe, and the new ideological moment for humanity and the American People.

We continue our discussion on a new Theory of the State, and examine the epistemology of opposite political actors Steve Bannon and Chris Hedges.

We discuss the struggle for a new and revolutionary democracy, which requires an updated theory of the State.

We discuss DeepSeek, the Chinese A.I. system that challenges our assumptions of technology and scientific capacities of the U.S. and the rest of the world, and what this tells us about the Chinese and U.S. social systems.

We discuss the inauguration of Donald Trump and what are the possible futures for the United States.

We discuss the crisis of the two-party system in the US and what this means for governance and the rule of the ruling elite.

We discuss this topic: "Is the US People's struggle for democracy a geostrategic force in the global struggle for peace?"

We assess the first 10 months of the Year of James Baldwin and what the last seven weeks will look like. Then we discuss an all humanity struggle of a new type in this moment of civilizational crisis.

We discuss: Can the American ruling elite survive the civilizational crisis that the West is engulfed in?

We discuss what the capacities of the ruling elite are. Are they weaker than they've been in close to 100 years?

We discuss the election 10 days out. We also speak about the BRICS conference in Russia.

We discuss chaos and nihilism in the final days of Biden administration.

We discuss the Lucien Blackwell Library reading group for the Year of Baldwin, including a discussion on Baldwin's essay "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood." Then we discuss the political system crisis of disintegration and what are the possible ways forward.

We discuss the US state in the throes of the ideological crisis of the state. We examine some theories including John Rawls's theory of justice.

We discuss the US state and its ideology in a time of mass discontent and the overturning of the liberal consensus. We explore the FDR redistributive/progressive state and Trump's retribution/revenge state.