this is karen hunter and welcome to in class with car 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 and it

started with a simple question can i press record it was a question that i asked of the people's professor

dr gray car At the time,

he was the head of Africana Studies at Howard University. He's still teaching the world. And in this

space, we have been going strong since 2020. And it has been amazing. So tune in to In Class

with Carr. And thank you for joining us. You can follow us by the way at

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To Master Clemens, clergy, brothers and sisters to this marvelous family.

Thank you for allowing me this moment to say word about my friend of over 50 years.

I buried my mother 10 days ago.

And all I can assure you is that you'll never get over losing Bob, but you will get through it.

Weeping, it may endure for a night, but joy does come in the morning.

Tonight we gather to honor a giant, and of course being five, seven, compared to Bob,

I mean that in every sense of the word. Bob stood six feet nine inches tall, which placed him

among the rarest of men from a physical standpoint.

But the truth is, his physical height only symbolized the size of his significance, because

Bob stood even taller in the areas that matter most, commitment, courage, and conviction. He was cut from the same cloth as our greatest ancestors, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer,

men and women who refuse to accept oppression and injustice as normal,

men and women who believe that truth must be spoken even when it's

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