In Session 335 of In Class With Carr, we continue Black August during our annual study tour of Kemet [Ancient Egypt] and the Nile Valley. Following pathways of liberatory intellectual work of previous generations of Africans engaged in Global Black Study helps us to resist current efforts to disrupt deeper collective study as well as to attempt to privatize and commodify broad access to information. Studying Kemet is a foundational element of the broader work of liberating Black people and all humanity from all forms of oppression.

In light of the recent global protests against racism, calls to #DefundThePolice and the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, one question has been repeatedly asked:
“How can the Black community create sustainable change for ourselves?”

This discussion will focus on attempting to answer that question by focusing on one word: infrastructure.

Structural racism/white supremacy have always created roadblocks to our community building the necessary framework to protect and provide for our communities. Many of us are exhausted with talking about “the problem” and want to build more sustainable solutions to the many challenges our community faces.

Panelists:
Bakari Jones, Business strategist
Danielle Torain, Executive Director - OSI-Baltimore
Changa Onyango, Director - AO Services
Heber Brown III, Director - The Black Church Food Security Network

Moderator:
Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy - Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle

In previous Powered by Ancestry episodes, I have made reference to rituals used for ancestral connection and work. In this episode, I shared several simple but effective rituals I have used over the years. Disclaimer: though these are general rituals which anyone can do, what I am sharing is my experiences in having using them, rather than advising viewers or prescribing them. Please work with a reputable spiritualist if or when questions about ritual work arises.

⁣Mhenga Malcolm X: Interview with Red Benson [1963]

Underrepresented Afro-Mexican communities are working to change the Constitution to earn their basic rights like healthcare and education. CCTV America's Franc Contreras reports.

(2015) WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE. Documentary featuring an emerging strain of anger among some prominent African-American activists and intellectuals during the civil rights movement.
“Blood In My Eye,” produced by Louis Bourgeois of Vox Press of Oxford, and filmmaker Mykki Newton intersperses scenes from the movement in the 1960s with the provocative language of Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther leader who wrote “Soul On Ice,” novelist and essayist James Baldwin, the author of “The Fire Next Time,” and other black writers.
RUNTIME: 61 MINUTES

⁣Africa before colonialism with Drs.Litchfield-Tshabalala and Asad el-Malik (Part 1)

On July 5th, 1852 Frederick Douglass spoke at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York on the significance of America’s Independence Day. Ossie Davis reads this speech, compiled by Phil Foner, which demonstrates Douglass’ incomparable skill in oration and commands respect for the legendary thinker and activist. Admitting to being embarrassed by the great "distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which [he] escaped," Douglass proceeded to praise the "sublime faith in the great principles of justice and freedom" out of which the United States was born, while mourning the "sad sense of disparity" that even after national independence persists in keeping an "immeasurable distance between us" through the bonds of slavery. (The Emancipation Proclamation was not issued until 1863, and the 13th Amendment did not officially end slavery until 1865.) (Remastered and reiussed on SFW47006 The Oratory of Frederick Douglass.)Shared for historical purposes.

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Robert Fisher was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison Tuesday morning for the horrific rape and murder of 3-year-old Josefina Cunningham.

IMPORTANT CORRECTION: The proper way to write the law of cosines is
C^2 = A^2 +B^2 - 2AB cos(Ψ)