S E1290: In Class with Carr, Ep. 290: "It is Our Duty to Win!"
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, September 25, 2025, Assata Olugbala Shakur made transition in Cuba. In Chapter 3 of her autobiography, she contrasts the long history of criminal assaults against African people by Western Social Structures with the work of African resistance grounded in self-determining Governance spaces, closing her famous July 4, 1973, “To My People” recording with the powerful words: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.”
This week, we reflect on the ongoing assaults on freedom and community by U.S. state actors, the growing resistance to white nationalism and state fascism, and the vital role of study, memory, and collective action in confronting, neutralizing, and ultimately overcoming these forces.
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| 0:00.0 | this is karen hunter and welcome to in class with car this is a space where during the pandemic |
| 0:07.7 | we imagined what it would look like to teach a class online that would be for the world and it |
| 0:14.4 | started with a simple question can i press record it was a question that i asked of the people's professor |
| 0:19.9 | dr gray car At the time, |
| 0:22.0 | he was the head of Africana Studies at Howard University. He's still teaching the world. And in this |
| 0:26.8 | space, we have been going strong since 2020. And it has been amazing. So tune in to In Class |
| 0:33.8 | with Carr. And thank you for joining us. You can follow us by the way at |
| 0:37.9 | Narrative with a K. Join us Narrative with a K. The K is silent like knowledge. K |
| 0:43.0 | N-A-R-R-A-T-I-V-E narrative.com. If you want to have a deeper relationship with us, |
| 0:49.5 | join us there. Stay tuned. The first person that gave me the inner strength that I needed to overcome or to be able to think about overcoming the tremendous odds that I were against me was my grandmother. |
| 1:30.3 | She came from Wilmington, North Carolina, to see me, to see me at Yardville Prison. |
| 1:41.3 | I was in that prison. I was put in a maximum security unit in a cell with two guards in front of the cell 24 hours a day and the cell between two gun towers that could |
| 2:07.0 | train their guns directly on the cell. I was told that I was in the Yardville unit for women, even though I was the only woman. |
| 2:20.3 | And they tried to keep me there for the rest of my life. |
| 2:27.3 | My grandmother came to visit me there to tell me a dream. |
| 2:36.0 | And she came with all of my family and everybody was happy and I'm like, you know, what's happening with you? |
| 2:42.0 | You're in this nose. |
| 2:43.0 | She had a dream, she had a dream. |
| 2:45.0 | And I was like, okay, okay. |
| 2:47.0 | And so my grandmother's dream was that she was dressing me, that she was in an old house that she lived in when she lived in New York still. |
| 2:58.6 | And she was putting clothes on me. I said, is that the dream? She said, that's the dream. And I said, well, was I little or big? She said, no, you were big. |
| 3:10.2 | So I saw, my God, the only time people dress anybody when they're grown is when they're dead. |
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