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In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Episode 283: "Why Not Call it Mdw Ntr?”Our Annual Nile Valley study tour continues the process of strengthening the work of Africana Studies as a tool for jailbreaking the university and renewing deeper traditions of community-centered education. Inspired by a 1996 exchange between Greg Kimathi Carr and Jacob Carruthers—where Carruthers urged embracing language and concepts from Mdw Ntr over attempting to repurpose European concepts as a form of Africana hermeneutics—this week’s reflections link Carruthers’ notion of ancient Kemet’s governance-through-education process to the “Black University” as a concept. Against a Social Structure hellbent on bending collective memory to serve exclusion, fear, and hatred, this annual study tour affirms education a...
2025-08-111h 14In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 282: Nations Within NationsCan we live together? We must. This week’s funeral of Officer Didarul Islam in New York City, where leaders honored his immigrant journey and anchoring cultural identities, place current global tensions, tariff wars, and political upheavals at the center of our efforts to compare ourselves to each other. We explore the state’s role in that process, and find in our study of the past in relation to the now new ways to build bonds of “nations within nations.”JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are
2025-08-041h 20In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 281: Referendum on AmericaThe weaponization of the judiciary, cultural institutions, and federal agencies threatens deeper fissures. As demographic shifts challenge already fragile power hierarchies in places like Texas, the backlash grows, manifesting in state repression and ideological crusades. This week, "In Class with Carr" looks to historical memory to remind us that Governance formations can and must be reimagined with a focus on relational citizenship rather than always deeply flawed racial state structures. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.
2025-07-302h 01In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 280: “There Ain’t No Such Thing as Superman!”The Cultural Meaning Making trope of Superman, especially as a trope used in US white nationalism, serves as a point of entry to consider power, collective identity and belief in the US Social Structure. In a moment in US and global history especially fraught with mass and social media manipulation, how can we leverage the momentum of memory to empower alternative visions of self-determination? Critical white nationalist reaction to the latest “Superman” movie reminds us of the US’s persistent need for savior figures, often racialized to uphold white nationalist ideologies.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarra...
2025-07-291h 48In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 279: "I Respectfully Dissent!"In the 2025 Supreme Court term, Justice Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson authored more dissents than any of her colleagues, offering a searing critique of expanding executive power and the erosion of constitutional norms and the Rule of Law. This week we focus on her dissent in Trump v. CASA, the White Nationalist frontal assault on birthright citizenship, placing Brown Jackson’s dissent in historical context. Her dissents represent a form of intellectual resistance—urgent, unflinching, and deeply rooted in the very framework and principles now being overtly obviated by the Supreme Court’s majority and more accommodated by those who oppose...
2025-07-281h 41In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 278: America on the RopesThe United States once again finds itself metaphorically “on the ropes,” staggering beneath the weight of white nationalism and nativist logics, elite-driven legislation, electoral political theater, digital mass media distortion, and deepening economic, social, and cultural divides. Buffeted by increasingly powerful international forces, is the idea of a US counterpunch more delusion than reality? Can the various groups in the US rediscover their best moments of clarity of collective purpose in order to push back oppressive forces, or have both the country and the people in it already punched themselves out? The two-week ritual corri...
2025-07-251h 19In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 277: White Citizenship vs EverybodyThe final US Supreme Court decisions of the term continue the assault on Reconstruction-era federal law, suborning the “neo-Confederate” agenda of reasserting racialized citizenship and dismantling protections clearly intended to be enshrined in US law in the Reconstruction Constitutional amendments. By restricting judicial orders to named plaintiffs, the Court once again attempts to curb collective legal remedy, hinting perhaps that the next step may be a frontal assault on birthright citizenship. These maneuvers are not isolated; they reflect a broader effort to preserve legal standing for whiteness. As politically backward states like South Carolina restrict access to health care and...
2025-07-241h 28In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 276: Juneteenth and the Unyielding Work of LiberationThe annual period between June 19 and July 4 in the US should be viewed as a time when we read Africana Governance formations against contemporary Social Structures that seek to oppress and restrict human possibilities. Juneteenth is a powerful, living ritual of African self-determination that remembers and reiterates freedom as a Ways of Knowing rooted in self-governance and collective memory. This stands in stark contrast to fantasies of “independence” that follow it on July 4th.This sacred corridor of time, tracing from Port 21 on Galveston Bay to Houston’s Freedmen’s Town and beyond, reveals and embodies African traditio...
2025-07-232h 03In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 275: “Parades of Harm, Principles of Repair”As global crises and US domestic reckonings intensify, the New York Community Commission on Reparations Remedies met this week at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, drawing attention to the urgent need to reimagine repair—not merely as restitution, but as a process of decolonization and rehumanization in a fractured United States and world. Reparations is not simply (or even primarily) about monetary compensation, but about dismantling systems of harm and colonization that still define the American state and the world system out of which it emerged and which it anchors.Literal and figurative disasters pe...
2025-07-221h 23In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 274: "The Ballot, The Book and The Buck”Black self-determination and liberation requires a holistic and strategic integration of political power, cultural memory, and economic self-determination. Across a week of reflection, convenings, and engagement, from Birmingham’s Civil Rights Historical District to Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Avenue to Daytona’s Paul Laurence Dunbar House and Wilberforce Ohio’s National Afro American Museum and Cultural Center, we center the urgency of reclaiming and redefining learning, community, citizenship, institution building and governance on African terms.The Ballot represents more than just voting, though that is an essential element of civic participation: It symbolizes collective potential power. The long fig...
2025-07-211h 26In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 273: Governance by Gaslight: Black Politics at the End of Empire“Gaslighting” is the psychological manipulation of individuals or groups into questioning their reality, memory, or sanity—often to maintain control. In a week of continuing mounting chaos in US politics marked by the meeting of the National Organization of Black County Officials in Birmingham, we can recognize that both colonialism and American institutions have gaslit Black communities into believing that our cultures, languages, and histories are inferior.New Ancestor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s work explains how elites from would-be oppressed groups are often recruited into tempering mass liberation movements through mental colonization in language, law, politics and...
2025-07-181h 48In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 272: "The People vs. The State: Compromise, Confront, Contain, or Control?”In today’s turbulent global political landscape, relationships between the people, organized groups and the state is shaped by interactions frought with compromise, confrontation, containment, and control. This week’s moment of confrontation between state representatives of South Africa and the United States provide opportunities to examine where unresolved historical trauma, structural inequality, and ideological warfare define terrains of struggle in the Contemporary World System.South African President Ramaphosa’s recent US visit saw a propaganda assault from the U.S. President featuring inaccurate and unintentionally ironic uses of images from anti-Apartheid era cultural and political struggles as wel...
2025-07-171h 50In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 271: “Malcolm X at 100: Clarity, Not Chaos, to Create a New World”On Monday, May 19, 2025, we mark the 100th birthday of Malcolm X—a centennial honoring a life shaped by self-transformation, Black self-determination, and an unwavering commitment to global liberation. His words and actions continue to challenge systems rooted in white supremacy, now desperately clinging to power through international self-dealing, global realignments, and domestic attacks on voting rights, birthright citizenship, and national identity.Since his assassination in 1965, one question persists: What would Malcolm say now? From The Autobiography to ongoing efforts to define—and redefine—his legacy, from dialogues with elders, organizers, artists, and scholars, we remember Malcolm not just a...
2025-07-161h 55In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 270: "We Have Been Believers”Across political, social, and spiritual spheres, humanity faces a reckoning with the structures of power that shape our world—and the urgent need to turn from putting our faith in unreliable actors in favor of putting our faith in ourselves and responding to oppression with collective action.The recent acquittal of the police officer killers of Tyre Nichols, Donald Trump’s continued assaults on both international institutions and domestic democratic norms, and the rising threat of regional international wars are all points of entry for deeper reflection on the meaning of collective human purpose—focusing on broad moveme...
2025-07-151h 38In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 269: “Executive Orders vs Ancestral Orders: The Next 100 Days”The first one hundred days of the second Donald Trump presidency saw an unprecedented campaign to dismantle institutional norms and accelerate structural transformation, evoking the spirit of the earliest days of American settler colonialism. Each executive order, policy decision and rhetorical outburst worked to normalize a vision rooted in theocracy, white nationalist fascism, and xenophobic fervor—aimed particularly at white fear of immigrants and non-white communities and the delusion of narrow, absurdist “community norms.” Yet, amid this full-spectrum assault on democratic institutions and the possibilities of social cohesion, the judiciary, select institutional actors, and a rapidly mobilizing popular resistance have b...
2025-07-141h 42In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 268: We're All Sinners!The rapid success of Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners provides an ideal text for analysis through the Africana Studies Disciplinary Framework. As we explore some of the film’s central themes, it becomes clear how both the film itself and responses to it reflect intersections of the Social Structure and Governance Disciplinary Conceptual Categories. Rooted in self-determination—both as a cinematic work and a commercial project—Sinners offers repeated examples of Africana African Ways of Knowing, Cultural Meaning-Making, and Movement and Memory. Through its use of icons, shrines, totems, and rituals, and by blending and at once renegotiating elements of The B...
2025-07-112h 03In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 267: “Fighting Black: Liberation Beyond the Nation”In a week when Harvard University marked the first full-throated act of resistance in U.S. higher education against the rising tide of institutionalized Trumpism, we are also reminded—through annual rituals of remembrance—of our enduring struggle for liberation. From the commemoration of Jackie Robinson’s debut in Major League Baseball to the District of Columbia's observance of Compensated Emancipation Day, these moments highlight a deeper truth: the fight against limitation and oppression is a fundamental part of life.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are
2025-07-101h 33In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 266: "New World A'Coming"!This week, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch offered expansive public remarks that help reframe how we think about nationhood, identity, and responsibility to the group. While we often see ourselves bound by narratives tied to constructs like “nations,” Bunch’s assertion that there is no single U.S. narrative—that there are many stories—reminds us that our existence is both local and global, rooted in daily life yet connected to distant people and places. Our Africana Studies framework, grounded in deep listening and study, helps us engage a world where European expansion forged global contact that now erodes borders—even as poli...
2025-07-091h 39In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 265: “DEI Gone Wild!”In a week when the imposition of US tariffs by an increasingly unstable federal government weaponized by white nationalism pushes the US and global economies towards global recession and depression, the University of South Carolina Women’s Basketball Team highlights ongoing tensions between race, power, and control in U.S. society.While Black students make up only 10% of USC’s student body, they represent over a quarter of the state’s population. Meanwhile, South Carolina’s political power is shaped by hyper-gerrymandered districts, allowing white nationalist control, seen in actions like the state legislature’s recent ban on DEI ini...
2025-07-082h 10In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 264: Reality Wars!The white nationalist movement in the U.S., now overburdening its manipulation of the electorate to dominate the executive and legislative branches, has become both more emboldened and chaotic in response to growing opposition from the courts, media, and the public.This movement, recognizing its increasing anxiety, has resorted to distractions such as controversial trips, absurd executive orders, and threats to impose harsher tariffs or force legal opponents into submission.An expected example of this is the Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which aims to revise history to align with the...
2025-07-072h 22In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 263: "Educators Saving Lives/Us Saving Ourselves”At the Second Annual Morehouse CANDLE Lecture and Forum, under the theme “Pushing the Limits of Education: Pedagogy for the 21st Century,” the documentary “Belonging Beyond Brown” prompted deep reflection on themes such as education, self-determination, class, race, and culture. The discussion reminds us that an Africana Studies framework offers a model for renewing African humanity and helping to link us to the global shift away from European-centered ideologies. This framework emphasizes unity among African people through education, governance, and historical flow and continuity, enabling the ability to overcome limitations imposed by white supremacy. By grounding ourselves in our own know...
2025-07-041h 57In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 262: "Fight or Flight?"The last generation that fought for world-changing liberation during the Human and Civil Rights movements of the 1940s-70s is determined to institutionalize the lessons they learned for future generations.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr
2025-07-031h 49In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep.261: Getting Red, Black and Green in the Sunshine - The State of Our Union"In a world increasingly shaped by different forms of nationalism, the decline of the US empire accelerates as white nativists defend grifters rushing to harvest government infrastructure, threatening US influence and power on the global stage. Meanwhile, formations like the European Union and countries like China, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa are quickly forging new paths, strengthening regional and global alliances in a post-American world. In the midst of these global shifts, it’s essential to remember grounding elements of human nature and experience which offer us best guidance on how to respond—if we can tune into them...
2025-07-022h 12In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 260: “Compared to What?”The passing of Roberta Cleopatra Flack during the final week of Black History Month 2025 bracketed the close of an era of Cultural Meaning-Making that opened during a watershed generation of popular cultural self-determination in Africana Governance formations.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with...
2025-07-012h 39In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 259: “What Are We Going to Do About It?”As we approach the close of Black History Month 2025, our focus remains steadfast on drawing from the wisdom of our ancestors and examples from today, seeking guidance on how we can and will take meaningful action to address the challenges we face—locally, nationally, and globally.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://ww...
2025-06-302h 04In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 258: Blackest History Month III: Playing the American 'Great Game'As we enter the second half of Blackest History Month 2025, we reflect on themes of power, influence, culture, and resistance, particularly within the context of Black thought, history, and contemporary developments in the US and global social structures. The contrast between figures like Kendrick Lamar (highlighted during the Super Bowl) and Donald Trump illustrates how power often intersects with whiteness, capitalism, and entertainment to shape public consciousness. This is especially evident in major advertising events like the Super Bowl, where creating a cultural moment and capturing attention become paramount. Meanwhile, the increasing channeling of public resources into promoting visions...
2025-06-271h 57In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 257: “Blackest History Month II: Everything Else Will Only Confuse You”During the second week of Blackest History Month, we continue to seek insights from Carter G. Woodson to fuel the momentum of historical memory as a device for breaking through the noise, distraction, and disruption of contemporary events.Neely Fuller Jr. (1929-2025), an early proponent of what has been labeled “Anti-Racist” thinking, contended in 1971 that “If you do not understand White Supremacy (Racism)—what it is and how it works—everything else that you understand will only confuse you.” He, Woodson, and countless others’ lives and thoughts should help us develop our best thinking on Governance by forming a fort...
2025-06-262h 00In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 256: The BLACKEST Black History Month!As we enter US Black History Month 2025, we face the most severe crisis in white global nationalisms since World War II. In the United States, white nationalists are making good on their promise to try to destabilize the federal government and redefine the country. As Carter G. Woodson originally envisioned, this time must serve as a moment for reflection—an opportunity to consider what we should have learned about African world experiences throughout the year, to inspire action, and to propel us forward.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, wh...
2025-06-252h 21In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 255: Hell Week!Since the November 2024 U.S. Presidential election, it has become increasingly common for Africans in the U.S. and others to invoke the phrase “Fool Around and Find Out.” And the U.S. — along with the rest of the world — is certainly finding out. As serious observers and commentators have noted for years, Donald Trump represents a resurgence of global political intolerance, white nationalism, and nativism. Neither he nor his prominent supporters have made any effort to disguise it. The first “Hell Week” of Trump’s second presidential term has made his agenda clear, marked by a flurry of executive acti...
2025-06-241h 35In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 254: "MLK vs. Project 2025: The World House vs. The White House"This week’s In Class session will explore the symbolic clash between two diametrically opposed worldviews—represented by Trump and King—and examine how challenging oppressive structures can lay the groundwork for dismantling them.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitte...
2025-06-231h 36In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 253: Pax or Pox? The Fragility of The World HouseThe United States is in the midst of a propaganda and disinformation war, fueled by plutocrats and tech moguls like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, who have harnessed technology for profit. Meanwhile, the American empire remains unchecked, its worst nationalist and jingoistic impulses amplified by political opportunism at the highest levels. The times demand serious, accessible intellectual work, but instead, our search for grounded perspectives is surrendered to the lazy pull of social media, leaving us unable to distinguish between deeply researched work, like James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, and polemics like Lies My Liberal Teacher To...
2025-06-201h 53In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 252: "“Jimmy Carter and the Possibilities: An Era Ended”The passing of James Earl Carter Jr. [1924-2024] marks the close of not only a century-long life but the end of an entire political, cultural, and social era. Carter, the 39th President of the United States, was an “outlier” in the US Social Structure—an embodiment of the deeply rooted laboring class from the neo-Confederate South. His worldview and political philosophy were shaped by a unique fusion of white and Africana Southern Governance formations, creating a distinct approach to power and Cultural Meaning-Making. This blend, forged in the crucible of his upbringing, informed a political career that began in the Ge...
2025-06-192h 21In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 251: "Doing Things Together Comes Naturally!"“As the world braced for intensifying international conflicts between countries, corporations and cultural movements, the final week of 2024 also saw a notable intensification of class conflict within the ranks of the nativist MAGA movement, as tensions grew between its controlling elites and its increasingly vocal white nationalist base. Often referred to as a “MAGA Civil War,” this internal rift was fueled by provocative statements from figures like “President” Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, both immigrants who made pro-immigrant comments in conflict with millions of MAGA nativists. This turmoil exposes the fragility of what is too often perceived as a unified co...
2025-06-181h 46In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 250: "The More Things Change..."2024 is ending with Intensifying nationalist and populist movements capturing more electorates and elected officials in key countries around the world. In the US, the Republican Party is no exception, its intensifying battles between oligarchs and policymakers enabled by white nationalism previewing what is in store for the general US population in 2025. Meanwhile, the global social structure moves inexorably toward an increasingly multipolar world system. While specifics will no doubt hold some surprises, what will remain the same in many countries is a fight over resources and policy making based on racial and class-based logics. The more things change in...
2025-06-172h 22In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 249: "The Perfectibility of Blackness”This week we will use the origin story of Philadelphia Freedom Schools to revisit the essential components of an African education: The intergenerational transmission of knowledge, values and wisdom; the development of character, social responsibility and accountability; and the training of next and future generations to assume roles currently held by elders. By re-membering from the deep well of African thought and practice, can “Blackness,” a concept invented as a tool of oppression, be recrafted beyond a strategy for resistance to become a space for social perfectibility?JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to g...
2025-06-162h 58In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 248: “Play the Game or Tell the Truth?”December 5th marked the centennial birthday of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe of Azania [South Africa], the revolutionary Pan Africanist founder of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania and one of the most impactful thinkers, organizers and voices of the 20th century. The day was marked by retrospectives in South Africa and in other places across the world, including at Sankofa Video and Books in Washington, DC. But Sobukwe has not been remembered as he should anywhere, including in his home country. There has been a long and dedicated attempt by South Africa to erase his memory and not fully integrate...
2025-06-132h 06In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 247: “Quitting America/Building Within Ourselves”Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-06-121h 25In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 245: “Black Institutions, Black People, Black Possibilities”As energy from the 2024 US federal elections continues to recede and US and global social structures fight to cover the inexorable shift of economic and political tumult with a distracting and numbing facade of normalcy, we turn to three subjects that should anchor how we plan for seizing the momentum of memory in 2025: Black Institutions, Black People and Black Possibilities.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from...
2025-06-101h 34In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 244: “Now We Do It Our Way: A Work of Numbers”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://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority
2025-06-092h 18In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 243: “Running for Borders/Close to the Edge" (Part 3)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 changes in U.S. and global direction for at least the next generation. This week we undertake part two of our three-week consideration of what is at stake in the current US election. Why...
2025-06-062h 23In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 242: “Running for the borders, too close to the edges." (Part 2)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 changes in U.S. and global direction for at least the next generation. This week we undertake part two of our three-week consideration of what is at stake in the current US election. Why...
2025-06-052h 25In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 241: “Running for the borders, too close to the edges." (Part 1)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 changes in US and global direction for at least the next generation. This week, as we finish our examination of Ta Nehisi Coates’ The Message, we begin a three week consideration of what is at st...
2025-06-041h 59In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 240: “Write the Power: Do We Get The Message?”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 important in our lives.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a l...
2025-06-031h 35In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 239: "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied?"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 but a world in which deep memory informs the future? And what happens when the artist commingles their own individual and group memory with that of others, creating a shared humanity that t...
2025-06-022h 24In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 238: “Blood on the Leaves/Blood at the Root."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 perpetual spectacle are back in full effect. The distractions and serial stimuli are stronger than ever in a social structure that grows bloodier with each passing day. Can we pause...
2025-05-302h 03In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 237: "When the Word is Given!"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 does it signify? What does it say about the giver(s) and the audience(s)? What is the value and impact of mediation and Cultural Meaning-Making in today’s so...
2025-05-291h 36In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 236: "Moving Away or Confronting Head On? Responding to Absurdity"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, which in many ways poured the foundation for a “Black American” identity?JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live...
2025-05-282h 24In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 235: “It’s Debatable!”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 Introduction to Africana Studies Course in Knubia, we put electoral politics in the US in larger frameworks of developments in the US and global social structure. We also ask, on the cusp of Sonia...
2025-05-272h 03In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 234: "Seeing Beyond Ourselves!"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 KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from...
2025-05-262h 17In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 233: Back to An American Future!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 Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition,” established in 1998 to mark the night of August 22-23 1791, which marks the beginning of the Haitian Revolution. Our framing question this week: What might it mean to project the vision of “Black t...
2025-05-232h 08In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 232: "Do You Remember The Time? All History is About the Future!"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 time? JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheG...
2025-05-222h 19In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 231: "What is Our Intent?"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 negative effects of other human interests and objectives that obstruct creating a better society.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way...
2025-05-211h 47In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 230: Live from Kemet!Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into...
2025-05-201h 02In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 229: "When We Gather!"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 and with common purpose. Today we explore some of those ways.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live...
2025-05-192h 32In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 228: "When the Point is Missed!"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 classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com...
2025-05-162h 21In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep 227: "They Don't Really Care About Us!"Did you know that #Project2025 ‘s leader wrote his dissertation on enslaved Africans in Louisiana? Explore that and more on the 202nd anniversary of the planned #DenmarkVesey rebellion.#JoeBiden #InClasswithCarr #heritagefoundation #juneteenthJOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Cl...
2025-05-152h 03In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 226: "When We Ignore the Obvious"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 (Hurricane Beryl), the face offs in England and France and the impending all-the- marbles showdown in US politics.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia...
2025-05-142h 46In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 225: "Against the Law?"Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into...
2025-05-132h 38In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 224: “What Makes a Giant? Willie Mays and Us”Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into...
2025-05-121h 40In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 223: Blacks Studies: The Fight and the FutureAre you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into...
2025-05-092h 29In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 222: “Singing Our Song in a Strange Land”Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-05-081h 41In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 221: "What Are the Costs of Partial Inclusion..."Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-05-072h 35In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 220: “Be it Resolved: Do Something!”Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-05-062h 26In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 219: A Look at Brown v. Board of EdAre you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-05-051h 43In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 218: "For the Culture"Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-05-022h 04In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 217: “People vs Privilege: A Recipe for National Suicide?”This happens every so often, and increasingly as the US empire expanded. It comes as a commingling of domestic and foreign policy: Vietnam, The War In Iraq, and now the Israel-Palestinian slaughter.What happens when the interests of the people clash with the interests of the privileged? Biden will be at Morehouse in two weeks. Between now and then, so much is poised to happen.They’ve literally unleashed police on college students, faculty, observers, and anyone whom the police want to harm. There is no legal justification; this is pure repression. And mass commercial “news...
2025-05-012h 21In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 216: “Working for the Future” (and HBD, Dr. Carr!)Dr. Carr discusses the significance of the campus protests as well as the Supreme Court's complicity in giving Donald Trump a free pass.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarrSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...
2025-04-302h 06In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 215: "Can You Smell the Rain?"Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-04-292h 17In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 214: The Juice is Loose..."Who is OJ Simpson to Others and to Us” ?With the passing of O.J. Simpson this week, Dr. Carr explores his legacy. Who is he to us? Who was he to others? #OJSimpson #JohnnieCochran #TrialoftheCentury #Mase #Camron #Jenner #kardashian JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr
2025-04-281h 59In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 213: Final Four and So Much MoreAre you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-04-251h 35In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 212: Destination LiberationAre you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-04-241h 46In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 211: "All That We Carry...""All That We Carry/Where Do We Go From Here?" is the theme for the National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College this weekend. There's also a discussion of #Shirley, the film about Shirley Chisholm starring Regina King, as an entry point for a discussion on momentum of memory and cultural meaning making.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https...
2025-04-232h 02In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 210: "When to Rebel/When to Repair: How Do We Choose?"Similar to Benjamin Mays, Dorie Ladner (1943-2024) used to say she was “born to rebel.” She fought for human rights her whole life, transforming Social Structures while also centering her Ways of Knowing and the Governance formations she was raised in as an African person in Mississippi, in the Civil Rights Movement and in global liberation movements. Many US debates about reparations, such as Nicole Hannah-Jones article in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, center what Black people believe that the US “owes” Africans descended from US enslavement. Rebelling against an oppressive Social Structure and Repairing oneself and/or communi...
2025-04-221h 53In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 209: "What's the State of OUR Union?"Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-04-211h 58In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 208: "Committed or Uncommitted?"Processing our day-long teach-in at DuSable last week, the HistoryMakers conference in Atlanta and spending the last day of Black History Month at Dunbar High School gives us a chance to examine the importance of who tells the stories of our experiences and who interprets what the mean. Us being fully human in the world requires sacrifice. It requires us doing the right thing, even when it might cost something in the short term.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with...
2025-04-182h 28In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 207: "Whither Now and Why"W.E.B. Du Bois warned us what was coming if we didn’t plan and address issues of collective, race and culture. Dù Bois’s question of what our collective objectives are and should be looms larger than ever today. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In...
2025-04-171h 45In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 206: "Are We Chasing a Phantom?"Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these...
2025-04-161h 48In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 205: When the Lie Becomes the TruthAre you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into...
2025-04-151h 38In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 204: The Eagle Has Landed: How do We Fly Without Perching?Dr. Greg Carr and Professor Karen Hunter remember the life and legacy of Joe Madison, known as “The Black Eagle,” who passed away on January 31. He was 74.Joe Madison was a leading figure in American talk radio, who made history on multiple occasions, including in 2015 when he broke the Guinness World Record for “longest marathon hosting a radio talk show” (52 hours live). His efforts raised over $250,000 for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. In that same year he also became the first national, American talk show in more than 50 years to broadcast live from...
2025-04-141h 53In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 203: We’re All Guilty!With the International Court of Justice telling Israel to adhere to the Genocide Convention (a repudiation of their violence of historic significance), the question is raised, “what are the limits of formal organizations and is our silence in the face of violences complicity?” Alabama killed a death row inmate on Thursday by giving him a nitrogen gas mask instead of oxygen, a first in history. Over half the world’s people (more than 4 billion) live in the more than 60 countries that will hold elections this year, the largest number and percentage in history. But elected governments from India to the U...
2025-04-111h 57In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 202: "Do We Know What It Means To Be Free?"US white nationalists and market capitalists define “freedom” as the ability to pursue individual goals without state or social restraint. Renewed assaults on basic administrative and frameworks of US and international social structures and “norms” continue to stress individual and small group interests without regard to impact on larger communities and our common humanity. What are the costs of trying to execute these narrow ideological agendas? How do or should we think about “freedom” in our Governance formations and the Social Structures that influence them and in which they persist? As we continue our collective effort to enter 2024 w...
2025-04-102h 13In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 201: "What Dreaming Looks Like Through the Lens of Martin King"In this episode, Dr. Carr reflects on what is required of us to honor the labor we have undertaken over the arc of our soon-to-be four years of work at Knarrative and Knubia. As we embark on a new year, he reflects on the significance of continuing the journey, underlining the pivotal role this year is poised to play. He also discusses the essence of Martin Luther King's legacy and the role and difference between Domas and Djalis. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are
2025-04-092h 00In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 200: "Days of Future Past"So many things are lining up to come to a head in 2024. Increasing strain on structural formations (government, legal, economic, cultural) and inflection points that will be resolved earlier in the year (like these SCOTUS decisions) will reveal opportunities for us to seize. In Ep. 200, we draw from what we’ve done to reflect on how what we are building is essential: A community, engaged in slow learning, reflection, dialogue and finding common projects to engage.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld li...
2025-04-081h 52In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 199: Nia: Reflections on Our PurposeWhat does it mean to want to “do something?” To actually “do something,” both as a community and as an individual in community? Taking as our point of departure the fifth principle of Kwanzaa, “Nia” [Purpose], In Class leads up to our 200th weekly installment with a reflection on 2023 through our Africana Studies lens. In our 200th installment, we will look forward to 2024 and beyond in advance of what is shaping up to be a pivotal year in contemporary human history.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are
2025-04-072h 25In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 198: “Things Fall Apart: The Center Cannot Hold”New York State created a Reparations Commission this week. We are at in the arc of the United States Social Structure. The Colorado State Supreme Court case is open and shut on the 14th Amendment. SCOTUS is no doubt scurrying right now to evade the Constitution in a way that makes Bush v. Gore look like Brown v. Board. They’re tearing up their institutions, even as others are attempting to redefine Social Structures in ways that protect and extend all Governance formations in them. Federalism has never been a true reality, and it is being tested in ways th...
2025-04-041h 51In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 196: "What Does It Mean to Belong?"The world that Norman Lear curated, including the black world, and the way that black cultural meaning makers like Esther Rolle and John Amos pushed back against him, are a lens for examining the difference between social structures and governance formations in Africana. And after those shows, the genealogy that Norman Lear tapped into, in part to continue an ongoing project of mingling his ethnicity with a fictional American identity, with the framing of Black people as the diminished citizenry, goes a long way toward helping us understand the contempt and pity with which others view us, and with...
2025-04-021h 44In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 195: “Nah!: What Happens When We Refuse?”On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks said "Nah!" Dr. Carr and Karen explore the power of resistance. #ClaudetteColvin #BoycotttheMovie #KnubiaandRefill. There's also a brief discussion of Mehdi Hassan's show and Keith Olbermann's excoriation of Rachel Maddow.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twit...
2025-04-011h 37In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Lesson 194: "Why Are We Thankful?"JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarrSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2025-03-311h 28In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Lesson 193: "When We Learn 'WE': The Education of Black People!”Dr. Greg Carr and @Karen explore the idea that when we learn and teach ourselves, the 'We' emerges and connects. This is the necessary precursor to collective action. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr
2025-03-301h 24In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Lesson 192: “Nowhere to Run/Nowhere to Hide”?What happens when you have nowhere to run? Nowhere to even hide, for a moment’s respite. Can’t find protection in the national legislature. Can’t find protection from domestic violence (guns).Can’t find protection in your own bed (Breonna Taylor).Can’t find protection from white nationalism (The GOP).Karen and Dr. Carr will explore all of this in the context of increasingly bright lines being drawn domestically and globally.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes...
2025-03-291h 53In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 191: “Intellect Plus Praxis Equals Power”What good is it to know a thing, if that knowledge doesn’t translate into changing more than our individual condition for the better? Dr. Greg Carr and Karen Hunter explore this question.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/in...
2023-11-131h 28In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 190: At Our Limit, What Will We Risk?”Dr. Greg Carr and Karen sort through the shooting in Maine, the election of Mike Johnson and the ongoing conflict in Israel and put it in historical context, applying the Africana Framework to reflect on what has happened and predict what comes next.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knar...
2023-10-301h 51In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 189: Homecomings in Times of War: What is Home?”Continuing to process this Israel-Palestine War, Dr. Greg Carr spends time thinking the lens through which we should view it. This is the season of HBCU homecomings. We spend a lot of time making imaginary homes. We know about having to make home wherever we are. Where is home?JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knar...
2023-10-231h 44In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 188: In a Time of War, Who Do “We” Identify With?In the wake of the war that has erupted in Israel, Dr. Greg Carr ties the history to our humanity.JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarrSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali...
2023-10-161h 18In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 187: Self-Determination in the SilencesIt is Indigenous People’s Day weekend and Amiri Baraka’s birthday. Dr. Carr and Karen discuss self determination.It’s in the Social Structure’s narrative silences that we are able to form our own structures and grow. How do we nurture self-determination and self-sufficiency when the “Master Narrative” enforces silences about those subjects except when we are used as footnotes in its memory and vision? We are showing that we can and do convene in the seams of the Social Structure and in those seams—those silences—we find each other and build. JOIN KNARRATIVE: ...
2023-10-091h 24In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 186: "Can We Imagine a World Without Whiteness?"This was a question posed this week at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Second Annual International Black Writers Festival at Howard University. Dr. Carr and Karen wrestle with the question and deliver some poignant responses. There is also a tribute to Hollis Watkins, who made transition last week as well as a look at the life and work of Hattie McDaniel. #OscarsSoWhite. #ICWCJOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore...
2023-10-021h 21In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 185: “Who Determines Our Emancipation?”It’s the 161st anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation today. Here we are “freer” than ever in the United States and more detached from collective liberation work than ever. Meanwhile, Social Structure convulsions are surging once again (Murdoch’s Fox teetering, mock book burnings in Missouri, Blum now suing West Point over Affirmative Action, etc.). U.S. Feds announce HBCUs owed at least $16 billion (just over the last 30 years) and white nationalist governors are like, “Whatever!” And outside the U.S., other people and countries are moving more and more independently. Who determines our emancipation? What does it look like? How do...
2023-09-252h 11In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 184: Terror, Trauma, Trajectory, 60th Anniversary of the Birmingham SixJOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarrSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2023-09-182h 08In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 183: Did Jimmy the Greek Warn Us About the Potential of a Deion Sanders?Deion Sanders' first victory with Colorado last week has sparked a lot of commentary around the role of Black coaches in American football. With a look at #JimmytheGreek, who lost his job 35 years ago for saying Black were bred to dominate physically, Dr. Carr, the People's Professor, and Karen take a look at the history and what does it mean for us today beyond athletics. #AffirmativeAction. #InClasswithCarrJOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes areheld live with a live chat.To shop Go t...
2023-09-112h 18In Class with CarrIn Class with Carr, Ep. 182: Labor and LiteracyJOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat.To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajorityMore from us:Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarrSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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