2:28:0119K views · 1d ago · 2:28:01
"As contesting forces in the 2026 US election cycle hurtle toward uncertain conclusions, Session 347 of In Class With Carr, “How to Treat a Trick,” focuses on how to minimize mediated distractions engineered to retard Africana Governance consciousness and derail collective Black political action.
2:16:2211K views · 1w ago · 2:16:22
Election Day has arrived for most of the United States, with over twenty million people having already cast a vote as of late October. In Class With Carr 346, “Running in Place,” balances tensions of Governance-centered African political engagement in and against a convulsing US Federal Social Structure during this election cycle and beyond.
2:19:0524K views · 2w ago · 2:19:05
In the United States, France and Brazil, country-wide election cycles are heavily underway. As global Social Structures continue to be remade by conflicting economic, political and social agendas, Africana Governance formations and impulses fight to harness a Momentum of Memory in order to contest for collective state power and resist coordinated efforts to suppress popular social and political movements.
1:51:5130K views · 3w ago · 1:51:51
This week’s In Class With Carr comes from the Annual Convening of the National Conference of Black Lawyers. NCBL, founded in 1968 to serve as the Legal Arm of the Movement for Black Liberation, brings together lawyers, scholars, organizers, judges, legal workers, law students and legal activists to enhance our collective ability to struggle for full social, political and economic rights.
Topics: Intergenerational engagement · Conference and community · Ancestors and legacy · Governance formations · Political context and action · Framing law as a tool
2:47:0644K views · 4w ago · 2:47:06
What happens when a society has access to more information but suffers an underdeveloped capacity for collective understanding? In this week’s In Class With Carr, the concept of "Super Ignorance" is used to label contemporary relationships between education, power, technology, culture, and collective memory and action.
Topics: The new Kwanza stamp · Colors and tradition · Critique of the stamp · The importance of study · Defining social formations · Accountability and exposure
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Welcome to "What's New in Knubia," your latest update on classes, conversations, events, and community happenings inside the Knarrative ecosystem. Knarrative members gain access to Hundreds of classes Weekly live conversations Curated learning resources Community discussions inside Knubia Special programming and member events
2:53:5945K views · 1mo ago · 2:53:59
This week’s conversation, "Cross Colors," confronts our current attention-deficit society, one that causes us to forget what happened last week, much less before, and to attempt to command attention with shorthands that too often court obscuring spectacle.
Topics: The East: A cultural mecca · The momentum of memory · Community check-in · Ritual and dialogue · Living bibliography · Ancestors and legacies
2:26:3249K views · 1mo ago · 2:26:32
Global and domestic systems upholding US power continue to fracture, threatening partial collapse. Other countries accelerate work to bypass US influence and form new protective alliances. US public institutions face new threats from a determined minority of self-centered political actors moving in a distortion field of disregard, delusion, and avoidance.
2:30:51124K views · 1mo ago · 2:30:51
This week, Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch announced his retirement after a nearly four decade affiliation with its network and ending his seven year tenure as the first African American and first Historian to lead the institution founded in 1848. A decade ago this month, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened.
2:14:4234K views · 1mo ago · 2:14:42
This pre-Labor Day week was marked by the transition of Cultural Meaning-Maker Cassandra Wilson, whose artistic labor reminds us of the power of narratives of long-view memory as anchors for Ways of Knowing that shape our lives.
Topics: Jazz and Personal Identity · Music Education and Its Impact · Cultural Diversity in Music Education · The Role of Music in Personal Development · Cassandra Wilson's Influence and Legacy · Cassandra Wilson's Southern Roots and Musical Style
1:43:4935K views · 2mo ago · 1:43:49
During Black August 2026, the Asantehene, Otumfo Osei Tutu II, and Otumfo-Yere Julia Osei Tutu of the Asante People are visiting the United States. Their trip features a Royal Lecture at Howard University and an Akwasidae Festival at Bowie State University, bracketed by a major African business summit. This historic visit highlights a foundational truth: Global African solidarity and belonging must anchor self-determination to drive local, regional, and global advancement.
1:56:4626K views · 2mo ago · 1:56:46
During this Black August, US White Nationalists have continued to compile victories in the federal court, from Donald Trump’s White Nationalist Department of Justice dropping charges against Oath Keepers January 6, 2021 insurrectionists to his illegal White House ballroom project being endorsed through inaction by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
1:48:5623K views · 2mo ago · 1:48:56
As we enter the third week of Black August, our annual Kemet [Ancient Egypt] Study Tour concludes as debates on the changing nature and process of formal education continue in the US. Our work of “Jailbreaking the Black University” offers a clear contrast to current academic discussions on the nature and potential of HBCUs.
1:49:1229K views · 2mo ago · 1:49:12
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.
1:38:3034K views · 3mo ago · 1:38:30
Black August, an annual ritual introduced in the late 1970s as a period dedicated to African self-determination and collective political struggle, requires us to rethink sacrifice, rejuvenation and remembering. The month centers four grounding objectives: to study, fast, train, and fight. As with Kwanzaa, Black History Month and Juneteenth, every year these objectives reinforce the ongoing work for our liberation.
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