S E1304: In Class with Carr, Ep. 304: “New Year, Old Empire: Realign or Repeat?"
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In Class With Carr 304, with Dr. Greg Carr and Karen Hunter, opens the new year by naming our unavoidable choices in a moment of U.S. imperial desperation. The session centers our obligation to renew commitment to collective study as an act of courage and discipline, as U.S. bombs fall in Venezuela and Nigeria and a fear-driven minority attempts to sabotage people-centered local and national power. We reflect on the historic swearing-in of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, signaling shifting possibilities in the U.S. social structure, while recalling fellow New Yorker John Henrik Clarke’s call to situate our efforts to transform society within the latitude and longitude of our long memory. We close by naming the work ahead: deeper study pathways, shared learning experiences, living archives, and collective frameworks to continue to enhance the momentum of memory, raise standards, and move knowledge into coordinated action.
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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-N-A-R-R-A-T-I-V-E |
| 0:45.9 | Narrative.com. If you want to have a deeper relationship with us, join us there. Stay tuned. This is breaking news. |
| 0:57.0 | Newly elected New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani was sworn in just minutes ago, taking the oath to begin his term just after the clock struck midnight. |
| 1:07.0 | We take you there now. |
| 1:09.0 | Good evening, everyone, and happy New Year to all of you. |
| 1:14.1 | And I can't think of a better way to usher in 20, 26 than to be amongst family and friends, and to |
| 1:22.2 | inaugurate the man who will bring about a new era of progress, promise, and prosperity for New York City. |
| 1:30.8 | Zoran, I am so proud of what you have accomplished, and I'm filled with joy about what we will accomplish for our beloved city over the coming years. |
| 1:40.2 | And so with that, let us begin. |
| 1:43.3 | Please repeat after me, and raise your right hand. |
| 1:47.0 | I. |
| 1:48.0 | I. |
| 1:49.0 | Zoran Kwame Mondani. |
| 1:52.0 | Zoran Qamani |
| 1:54.0 | do solemnly swear |
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