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The Garvey Classroom PodcastThe Work of Our Own HandsMarcus Garvey understood something fundamental about freedom. You cannot beg your way to liberation. The hand that feeds you controls you, and the mind that accepts this arrangement has already surrendered. Garvey built the Universal Negro Improvement Association on this principle, declaring that our redemption would come through economic and spiritual independence. He was not speaking to individuals alone. He was speaking to a scattered nation.Decades later and thousands of miles away, Thomas Sankara inherited this understanding. When he became president of Burkina Faso in 1983, the country depended heavily on foreign aid and imported goods. Sankara...
2025-12-1811 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastArt & FreedomClaudia Jones taught that a people’s art is the genesis of their freedom. The line lands hard in a moment when schools cut arts programs, platforms mine Black creativity, and young people move through systems that compress imagination. Their gestures, slang, and style become global currency, yet the communities that shape the culture see little return. The imbalance distorts how children read their own brilliance. It narrows the field of possibility. Jones understood this tension. She knew that when art is treated as expendable, freedom becomes fragile.Jones’ life offers a clear map. Born in Trinidad, poli...
2025-12-1113 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastStillness Misread: Rosa Parks and the Power We OverlookA Black child sits quietly at a desk. Eyes steady. Breath slow. The room treats that calm as danger. A teacher marks it as “defiance.” A dean calls it “disrespect.” National data shows Black students are suspended at 3.5 times the rate of white students for subjective categories such as “defiance” or “insubordination,” even when behaviors match (Civil Rights Data Collection 2018). The misreading carries a cost. It teaches young people to shrink themselves. It teaches them to distrust their own steadiness. This shapes a wound that follows them into adulthood.Rosa Parks lived inside a similar system. Born in 1913 in Tuske...
2025-12-0410 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastWhen Learning Becomes LiberationWhen a society defines learning as a risk, the mind becomes contested ground. Frederick Douglass understood this early. The moment he realized why literacy was denied to him, he recognized what freedom would require. That insight still carries weight. In 2022, only 13 percent of Black eighth graders reached reading proficiency (Nation’s Report Card). Such numbers speak to more than educational shortfall. They reveal how the old belief persists that Black intellect must be managed.His transformation was not solely about literacy. It was about permission. Systems designed to limit imagination often do so by narrowing the stories yo...
2025-11-2609 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastCarter G. Woodson and the Fight Against Intellectual ViolenceCarter G. Woodson saw what few dared to name: that the violence done to the Black body begins in the classroom. Long before a system can exploit a people, it must first make them forget who they are. That forgetting, disguised as “education,” is what he called miseducation, the quiet, deliberate shaping of minds to accept the limits imposed upon them.To Woodson, the true danger was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. When a child opens a textbook that denies their ancestors’ genius, that erasure becomes a kind of psychic wound. They learn not only the na...
2025-11-2012 min
The Garvey Classroom Podcast“Know Yourself”Zora Neale Hurston had a problem most artists face at some point. Everyone wanted her to be something she wasn’t.The Harlem Renaissance was happening, and there was this unofficial program for what Black excellence looked like. Urban. Refined. Sophisticated. A deliberate move away from anything that reminded white audiences of the South or country life. The goal was dignity through polish.Hurston came from Eatonville, Florida, an all-Black town. She loved the stories people told there. She loved the dialect, the folklore, the way people talked and lived. And she refused to pretend ot...
2025-11-1310 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastKnow YourselfZora Neale Hurston faced the same challenge many of us do: everyone wanted her to be someone else.The Harlem Renaissance carried its own quiet rules for Black excellence: urban, polished, distant from anything that sounded rural. Hurston came from Eatonville, Florida, a place alive with folklore, laughter, and language. She loved the sound of her people and refused to hide it.That choice cost her. Not from white critics, but from Black thinkers who believed she made the race look backward. Their words cut deeper because they came from home. Yet she kept writing.
2025-11-1310 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastMarcus Garvey: Antisemite?As I prepare for my reading from Unstoppable You at the Miami Book Fair on November 22, 2025, I realized I would have to face the people who still try to tarnish Marcus Garvey’s name. While reviewing my notes, I returned to the Sun-Sentinel article describing then-Commissioner Dale Holness’s attempt to pass a resolution supporting Garvey’s exoneration. That effort echoed the decision by President Biden, who stated that Garvey’s felony conviction was unjust and, as Garvey himself described it in Philosophy and Opinions, a “frame-up.” The hearing in Broward brought forward a series of claims that, when c...
2025-11-1114 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastPaul Robeson: The Price of TruthHow do you hold your voice steady in a world that keeps trying to quiet you. How do you speak truth when the cost is real. These questions sat at the center of Paul Robeson’s life, and they sit in ours too.Robeson rose from the son of a man who escaped bondage to scholar at Rutgers and Columbia, actor, singer, global advocate, and witness for human dignity. His gift was not only his talent. It was the decision to define himself, to root his art in liberation, and to stand firm when the pressure to bo...
2025-11-0611 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastBreaking the Habit of SurrenderThis video speaks to the sense of passivity that Garvey warned us about. He called it “laziness.” A trained habit of surrender. Of waiting and letting others think and decide for us. That creeping belief that our effort will not matter until resignation starts to feel normal. When Garvey said, “You have been so darned lazy, that you’ve allowed the other fellow to run away with the whole world,” he was naming a danger, not insulting our spirit. The psychologist Martin Seligman later referred to it as “learned helplessness.” I wrote about this in my first novel, “Benjamin, My Son” (2003...
2025-11-0400 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastThe Work of FreedomI am loving the process of creating these short videos with the aunties who share Garvey Wisdom in twenty-five-second sound bites. Each one feels like a visit to an older relative’s kitchen or porch, where truth is offered plain and steady. They remind me that Garvey’s philosophy was never meant to stay locked in books or speeches. It was meant to live in the rhythm of ordinary conversation, the kind that teaches you how to move through the world without losing yourself.When Elder Ruth sits at her kitchen table, Bible nearby, and says, “Garvey told u...
2025-11-0300 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastWhy I Do What I DoOver the years working as a middle school teacher, professor at Miami Dade College, and poet in the schools across Dade County, I have seen what the educational system has done to our children, and it is heartbreaking. Many arrive bright and eager to learn but soon begin to doubt the value of their own voices. The lessons reward repetition over reflection. The tests measure obedience, not imagination. By the time they graduate, too many have been taught to mistrust their own brilliance.During those years, I tried to bring something different into the room. I introduced...
2025-11-0201 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastDaily Garvey Wisdom: Find Your VoiceThere is a quiet moment before we speak when doubt arrives first. It asks who we think we are. It reminds us of every time we stumbled or hesitated. Many turn back there. Yet that pause is not the enemy. It is the threshold.Marcus Garvey did not treat speech as decoration. He treated it as power. He taught that liberation begins when the tongue refuses to be quiet in the face of falsehood. He said, “The tongue is mightier than the pen and the sword” (Garvey, Philosophy and Opinions, 1925). The world has always feared a truthful voic...
2025-10-3100 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastThe Work of FreedomThree days ago, I shared a short reflection on TikTok about Elder Ruth, a character I created for the series “The Work of Freedom,” and the quiet power of building with our own two hands. I could not have imagined what Hurricane Melissa would bring to Jamaica, and especially to Westmoreland, where both my mother’s and my father’s families are from.This morning, I sat again with Elder Ruth’s wisdom and thought about what it means to build in a world that does not always shelter us. Storms come. Some literal. Some spiritual. All of them te...
2025-10-3000 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastErased Beginnings:The spirit of this project rises from the long labor of our historians and truth-tellers who fought to reclaim the story of Black life from the silence imposed upon it. Marcus Garvey stands first among them, the architect of Pan-Africanism, whose Universal Negro Improvement Association and Negro World awakened a global pride that no empire could suppress. Beside him, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the “Father of Black History,” exposed how schools distorted the record through The Miseducation of the Negro and founded Negro History Week to honor what had been erased.Dr. John Henrik Clarke lifted Africa back...
2025-10-2800 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastThe Work of FreedomThe Work of FreedomToo many of our young people don’t know anything about our history. Some think it began in slavery. That kind of forgetting is dangerous. It cuts us off from the long line of builders, dreamers, and fighters who came before us.I started The Work of Freedom and Daily Garvey Wisdom as my answer to that forgetting. I wanted to use story to pass on what Marcus Garvey taught about the mind, the self, and the power of belief. Story has always been how our people carried truth. Elder Grace, on...
2025-10-2300 min
The Garvey Classroom PodcastPresident Biden Pardons Marcus GarveyHonoring Marcus Garvey’s legacy and celebrating a historic moment. President Biden’s pardon is a step toward justice, but the work continues. Let’s uplift our communities, educate the next generation, and live by Garvey’s vision of empowerment and unity.#MarcusGarvey #GarveyPardon #BlackEmpowerment #MyNameIsMarcus #DailyGarveyWisdom #GarveyLegacy #JusticeForGarvey #EmancipateYourself #BlackUnity #BlackHistory Get full access to The Garvey Classroom at geoffreyphilp.substack.com/subscribe
2025-01-1901 min
Filosofiska rummetAI revolutionerar krigföringen- vill vi ha vapen som dödar på egen hand?I Ukrainakriget används ai-vapen som kan leta upp mål och attackera på egen hand. Ska vi välkomna eller frukta dessa nya vapen? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Det kan låta som en science fiction-dystopi, vapen som självständigt letar upp mål, och med hjälp av sina algoritmer, trycker på avtryckaren. Drönare som på egen hand söker upp och attackerar mål finns redan, men ska de kunna riktas direkt mot människor? Vad händer med det moraliska ansvaret när det mänskliga beslutet in...
2024-11-0944 min
Poem-a-DayGeoffrey Philp: "Haiku"Recorded by Geoffrey Philp for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 5, 2024. www.poets.org
2024-06-0502 min
Rattle Poetryep. 192 - New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the HolocaustPublished by Vallentine Mitchell of London, publisher of the first English language edition of Anne Frank's diary, New Voices is a ground-breaking multigenre book. The editors selected 58 distinct images from noted collections consisting of vintage photography, propaganda posters, newsreel stills and the like, matching each to a poet, short story or flash fiction writer, plus features by essayists as well. Each writer interpreted these “silent witnesses” from the period in their own unique way, creating new perspectives for our times. Together this diverse group, including writers of color, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ, prominent and emerging writers, from around the world have...
2023-05-022h 17
Shelf Life TV Show PodcastAfrican Redemption - The Life & Legacy of Marcus GarveyJudith Falloon-Reid hosts a stirring conversation with with Roy T. Anderson, Filmmaker & Paul Williams, Lead Actor - African Redemption, The Life & Legacy of Marcus Garvey alongside Geoffrey Philp, Author of Garvey’s Ghost & My Name is Marcus. #shelflifetv #africanredemption
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2021-09-2237 minShelf Life TV Show PodcastGarvey's Ghost - Geoffrey PhilpA conversation about Marcus Garvey and empowerment with Internationally acclaimed Poet & Author Geoffrey Philp.
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2021-08-1326 min
Jamaican DiasporaGeoffrey PhilpJune is Caribbean History month and June 16 is Fathers Day in the US. Geoffrey Philp is an author and teacher.
Jamaican Diaspora - www.JamaicanDiaspora.com
2019-11-0528 min
Best of The Miami Book Fair2016 Miami Book Fair | Geoffrey PhilpBorn in Jamaica, Geoffrey Philp has published two novels, five volumes of poetry, two short-story collections, and three children’s books. His work is represented in nearly every anthology of Caribbean literature, and he is one of the few writers whose work has been published in theOxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories and Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. He is currently […]
2016-11-2011 min
Global Voices PodcastThe Global Voices Show #1Originally published on Global Voices
Global Voices is pleased to announce the first of our new magazine-style podcasts, which aim to do for online audio what the Global Voices web site does for text blogs — introduce listeners to some of the exciting offerings from podcasters around the world.
In this episode we feature the following podcasts:
Toast Fantastic Podcast (South Africa)
Dixo – Eduardo Arcos (Mexico) – See also Global Voices Regional Editor David Sasaki’s article, “9 Questions for Eduardo Arcos”.
Geoffrey Philp’s Blog Spot (Jamaica) – See also Global Voices author Nicholas...
2006-05-2400 min