Haki Madhubuti Pt. 1: Taught By Women

The Tight Rope

SpkerBox Media

Society & Culture

5 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, @HakiMadhubuti joins the Professors for a conversation about his body of work and how he was, as one of his books is entitled, Taught By Women. Describing Gwendolyn Brooks as his “cultural mother,” Professor Madhubuti talks about the importance of the mentorship he received through his relationship with her and how he came to believe that literature is essential to self-discovery. Finally, synergizing his love for the written word with his belief in the necessity of building Black-led institutions, Professor Madhubuti discusses the institution he created--- Third World Press.

A leading poet and one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, Haki R. Madhubuti (pronounced Mad-hu-boo-tee) —publisher, editor and educator—has been a pivotal figure in the development of a strong Black literary tradition. He has published more than 31 books (some under his former name, Don L. Lee) and is one of the world’s best-selling authors of poetry and non-fiction. His book, Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition, has sold more than one million copies.

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0:00.0	This is Professor Matabuti.
0:01.5	I'm on the tightrope with the great Tricia Rose and Cornell West.
0:05.8	We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.
0:13.3	How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional momentum
0:17.7	of the colorblind ideology built?
0:20.1	So many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed
0:26.2	in the best of their past.
0:28.1	What are we going to make out of the nothing we've been given?
0:32.3	How do you envision possibilities?
0:37.4	Hey everyone.
0:38.3	Thank you so much for joining us on the tightrope where, as many of you know, we try to keep our balance on tough issues and keep a love and justice-infused spirit.
0:48.3	I'm here with my dear co-host, Dr. Cornell West, and I am just thrilled to spend more time with Cornell.
0:55.8	Cornell, today we have a very special guest who has been at the heart of a tight rope and a love
1:01.1	and justice-infused dialogue in his own life for a long time. Isn't that right?
1:05.5	I'm telling you, it doesn't get more special than to have this brother be in dialogue with us.
1:13.2	Because when you're talking about black people, you're talking about love,
1:16.7	you're talking about justice, you're talking about truth, you're talking about beauty.
1:20.2	You have to invoke the name of the great, the one and only Haki Mahabuti.
1:26.0	The legendary poet, he's a towering educator,
1:30.3	he's an institution builder.
1:33.3	He believes in the capacity of black people
1:35.3	to create institutions that sustain themselves.
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