My Latest Conversation with Dr. Mary Frances Berry (Part 2)
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. |
| 0:09.0 | I am Karen Hunter and the people I speak with are the awesome ones. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, sometimes the conversations get so heated or amazing that we have to do a part |
| 0:18.4 | to. |
| 0:19.0 | So stay tuned for the next part of my conversation. |
| 0:22.3 | My class was Stokely, Con Michael, which changed his name, of course. We were all philosophy |
| 0:27.7 | major. Stokely, Ackland Lynch, Colin Cox, and us, and they called us the nerds. So I was at |
| 0:35.2 | Howard. I had Rayford Logan who taught me all about history of Haiti |
| 0:39.0 | and the United States and Haiti of what they did to the Haitians. I learned all that very early. |
| 0:46.4 | Elsie Lewis, History of the South, all the great people. Tony Morrison teaching that. Tony was |
| 0:50.3 | teaching there too. She didn't teach me, but she was in the English department when I was there. |
| 0:54.0 | So it was a great time. I became a philosophy major because I was a nerd. And I had been a |
| 0:59.9 | science major. I did all the sciences. And then I got sick of them. And then I said, I'm glad I did |
| 1:05.5 | them because he gave me a perspective on things. Oh, my goodness. Blueprint Professor Dr. Mary Francis Berry, Howard University, |
| 1:16.3 | Stokely Carmichael in your class. Tony Morrison's teaching in the English department. |
| 1:19.8 | You are sitting under the great Rayford Logan and you're in the sciences, but got bored with that |
| 1:26.1 | and they came over here and oh my goodness. |
| 1:30.5 | Tell us something about Stokely Carmichael because I feel like this, we may not know who's going to stand up in this time. |
| 1:38.8 | But we know it's going to be, it's got to be young people because they're, this is their time. |
| 1:46.5 | Tell me something that you know about Stokely, Carmichael. |
| 1:50.6 | Yes. |
| 1:51.1 | Well, Julian Bond used to say that you, that people talk about passing the torch as you age |
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