Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation

We read aloud Dr. Monteiro's essay on Henry Winston. We also read aloud and discuss Jeremiah's presentation on Korea and Palestine. Finally, we update on preparations for the Henry Winston symposium, which will be on November 11th & 12th at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia.

We discuss Israel genocide against Palestinians in its ongoing war and whether the world is moving to world war. We also discuss the presidential race and the Biden administration. Finally, we update on preparations for the Henry Winston symposium.

We discuss the Israeli war on Palestinians and Gaza. We also discuss Putin’s recent speech on civilization.

We report on the organizing for our Henry Winston symposium in November, as well as the journal Avant-Garde. We also assess where we are in terms of the 2024 election.

This Saturday, we discuss whether the two parties of the state—the Democrats and Republicans—are on the verge of collapse. We also discuss James Baldwin's novels and how to approach reading them, as well as what we can learn for the Year of Baldwin from the Lotus group's reading of Baldwin at Penn.

We discuss free jazz and Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet's performance at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki in 1962. We also provide an update on our preparations for the November Henry Winston symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of his book, "Strategy for a Black Agenda."

We continue our discussion of Kwame Nkrumah's "Neocolonialism," the crisis of neocolonialism, and the recent G20 summit. We also continue our discussion of George Soros.

We discuss Kwame Nkrumah's "Neocolonialism", the crisis of neocolonialism, and the crisis of the US empire.

This Saturday, we discuss The State in theory and practice, and in a time of deep political crisis. We also discuss what Du Bois means in this time of crisis.

We discuss that the political path of all progressives in 2024 is to defeat Biden. We also complete our discussion of Coretta Scott King.

This Saturday, we’ll discuss Pan-Africanism, the Black Liberation Struggle, and the destabilizing policies of the U.S. government and deep state. We will look at the U.S. government’s efforts through the lens of a National Security Council Memorandum in 1978. We will discuss how this relates to events in Niger and the struggle against neocolonialism. Lastly, we will report on our science reading g...

This week, we discuss the federal indictment of President Trump and recent polls of the 2024 Presidential election. We also discuss Archishman Raju's review of Martin Wolf's book "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism".

This past Saturday, we discussed the "Summer of Strikes," as well as the recent film "Oppenheimer."

We discuss the Black Prophetic Tradition and the revolutionary struggle for democracy.

We return to the thesis of Richard Haass, the retiring head of the Council of Foreign Relations, that the greatest challenge to America's foreign and military policy is the domestic political struggle. In this light we examine the 50 or so Republican members of Congress calling for an end to military funding for Ukraine and withdrawal from NATO. We look at the editor of Jacobin Bhaskar Sunkara...

We discuss whether the current domestic and global crises can lead to a transition to a new domestic and international democracy.

We discuss the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and what it means. Then we return to a discussion of the 2024 election and the imminent decline of and growing irrelevancy of the Left in both its broad and narrow definitions.

We discuss our recent intercivilizational festival, "Unconquered Love: The Magnificent Lives of Paul Robeson and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad" in Philadelphia. We then continue our discussion on the presidential candidacies of Cornel West, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Donald Trump for the 2024 election.

We discuss our final preparations for our event "Unconquered Love: The Magnificent Lives of Paul Robeson and The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad." Then we discuss Cornel West's presidential run. "Unconquered Love: The Magnificent Lives of Paul Robeson and The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad" began on Friday, June 16th with a screening of the documentary Paul Robeson: Man For...

We give an update on our June 17th event celebrating Paul Robeson and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, "Unconquered Love: The Magnificent Lives of Paul Robeson and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad." We discuss our event's relationship to our recent event in Chicago for Paul Robeson's 125th birthday, including Mosque Maryam's mention of the Saturday Free School. Then we c...

We report on Paul Robeson celebration in Chicago.

We discuss the Philadelphia mayoral election and continue our deep reading of Hegel's Science of Logic.

We discuss World War II and how it impacted the world since its end, especially the world consciousness and humanity's capacity to bring about the Afro-Asiatic reconfiguration of the world. We continue our deep reading of Hegel's Science of Logic here:  https://drive.google.com/.../1eXesdzt13OZSmq0SUEUy4t.../view

We pay tribute to Harry Belafonte.

We continue our reading of Hegel's Science of Logic. The PDF we read from can be found here:  https://drive.google.com/.../1eXesdzt13OZSmq0SUEUy4t.../view