S E1311: In Class with Carr, Ep. 311: Black Power in Action: The Meaning of Jesse Jackson
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
On February 17, 2026, Jesse Louis Jackson made transition at 84, marking a watershed chapter in four generations of African struggle for US and global power. Emerging from Africana Governance formations, Jackson leveraged two currencies—voter power and consumer power—to push US domestic and global Social Structures to have to negotiate with the organized oppressed. From Operations Breadbasket and PUSH to Rainbow Coalition Presidential campaigns of 1984 and 1988, Jackson utilized and tested every tactic available to oppressed people confronting entrenched Social Structures. In Class With Carr 311 interprets the meaning of Jackson’s life and work as a case study in the possibilities and limits of Black self-determination, asking what it reveals about today’s fragile and reshaping political order and what understanding him, it and ourselves demands of us now.
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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 |
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| 0:53.9 | For the young people that are standing watching you right now and are just learning |
| 0:58.8 | maybe about your father's legacy. |
| 1:00.3 | You talked a lot about the division that we are feeling in our country right now. |
| 1:04.1 | How can they move forward and try to overcome that feeling of the divisiveness that we hear |
| 1:09.7 | so much about and your father thought against. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, I think that dad unmistakably was known for his discourse. |
| 1:16.6 | I think that we've spoken at nauseam about the fact that our generation, |
| 1:21.6 | Gen Zeres, Gen Alpha Millennials have the responsibility to remain in discourse with one another. |
| 1:26.6 | Because if we're not in proximity to one another, we can't solve the nation's crises at this time so I think I speak on behalf of dad that we are urgently called to continue discourse and to remain in conversation because our proximity is what's going to keep us moving forward in this time. He's always been proximal to all of you, proximal to all of us. And that's the work that our generation is |
| 1:47.6 | required to do the people. One last question. Let me associate myself with what I actually had to say, |
| 1:55.3 | but let me also be candid because I, I'm old enough to remember along with Sinti and Jonathan, all of it. |
| 2:02.6 | The caricature that you've created as a media of who our father is is not the reality of who we know him to be. |
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