S E1020: In Class with Carr, Ep 81: Haiti, Sankofa and a Tribute to Melvin Van Peebles

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Dr. Greg Carr talks about the recent release of #Sankofa on #Netflix as well as the current crisis at the Texas border. He also celebrates Melvin Van Peebles, who made transition this week. #SweetSweetbackBadassSong #Haiti #InClasswithCarr

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. I don't think anybody's up. Oh no, there's always. Most of the world is up. Maybe not the East Coast of the United States, but you know, so I'm going gonna blame you for this thank you I appreciate
0:24.8	you I'm always blame you so Sancofa came out on Netflix and I got up the crack of
0:31.2	Dawn's ass.
0:33.0	Otherwise known as the ass crack of Dawn.
0:37.8	Thank God all the children are asleep.
0:39.6	Did you? Yeah, and I didn't know what I was going to you know that's okay yeah of course of
0:46.3	thank you but I was there so he's taking me back you know to when I went through the castle and I'm sitting there like is he
0:56.1	going to go take people through the castle and the experience that I had there you
1:01.4	know for a lot of people they get in there, they cried, you know, but the spirit the spirit the spirit he calls the spirit back right from the very beginning with the drums
1:10.9	The spirit of the dead arise the spirit of the dead arise and I'm like that's right his words highly wrote those words but they were
1:18.0	spoken in the film by the great Oscar Brown Jr. out of Chicago, the great musician.
1:23.7	His whole squad was there.
1:25.0	Even Carrie James Marshall,
1:26.2	Carrie James Marshall did a lot of the production work
1:28.2	and artwork on Sancoff.
1:29.3	I mean, real low key though, it's like say less.
1:31.4	He ain't even, and the credits it just says carry
1:33.1	Marshall you wouldn't even know so anyway so you got you went back you were there yeah
1:38.0	and and I was just this week planning a trip to Ghana to bring in 2023.
1:46.2	So I have somebody that's planning so, you know,
1:48.3	the Nubian family, you know, get your coin together.
1:51.6	I know August, you were planning a trip to Egypt, but maybe hopefully, hopefully, you know,
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