S E1283: In Class with Carr, Episode 283: "Why Not Call it Mdw Ntr?”

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

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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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 as the highest expression of self-determined nationhood, peoplehood, and statehood. This fall, Carr will teach The Black University in a public format, constructing a syllabus open to all, to explore African people’s uncompromising commitment to communal intellectual life, rooted in ancestral guidance and seeking to inspire others to join in liberating knowledge from institutional restraints.

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0:56.5	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to in class with Carr.
0:59.5	This is a space where during the pandemic, we imagined what it would look like to teach a class online that would be for the world.
1:07.5	And it started with a simple question. Can I press record? It was a question that I asked of
1:12.8	the people's professor, Dr. Gray Carr. At the time, he was the head of Africana Studies at Howard
1:17.8	University. He's still teaching the world. And in this space, we have been going strong since
1:23.2	2020. And it has been amazing. So tune in to In Class with Carr and thank you for joining us.
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1:46.4	Good everything. Everybody. I know. It's y'all going to have to be flexible because we are
1:54.5	doing, but we're here. So thank you. Thank you, Professor Hunter. This is always the tricky two-week corridor, isn't it?
2:04.6	Whether the times it matched up, I didn't want to take a chance tomorrow morning, although
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