S E1324: In Class with Carr, Ep. 323: “From Time to Time”
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
In session 323, In Class with Carr uses the 2026 Commencement Season to explore the nature of time and the ways rituals marking transition create opportunities to reflect on Africana Governance, our relationships to one another and our obligations to each other. Centering Sankofa as a Way of Knowing, we examine how individual and collective dignity and power are strengthened through action-oriented rituals of Cultural Meaning-Making that encourage collective reflection. Strengthening this momentum of memory is especially important during moments when Social Structures intensify contests over global and local power arrangements and weaponize identity and memory against groups perceived as threats to existing power systems. This week, during a meeting with the U.S. President and leading figures in global business, Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked a metaphor from the Greek historian Thucydides—“the Thucydides Trap”—to signal a shifting global balance of power. Whether in conversations among BRICS foreign ministers in India, in commencement addresses to anxious graduates at Black and other institutions, or in testimony of rising forces determined to break attempts by White nationalist legislators in the neo-Confederate U.S. South to hold on to their fading power arrangements, one message is clear: We are living through a new time in the perpetual realignment of power. The question we must answer is whether—and how—we will respond.
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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. And I'm honoring the students today because I'm here because of imagination. |
| 0:56.0 | I came, I come from New Jersey, but I want to say, you know, Philadelphia is the city of brotherly |
| 1:03.0 | love. |
| 1:04.0 | They say DC is chocolate city, but Chicago is family. |
| 1:07.0 | Chicago is home. |
| 1:08.0 | And when I think about coming in here, this couldn't be a better |
| 1:12.5 | place to get my first, I'm planning on actually going back to school and getting the real |
| 1:16.9 | one. But this is, this is actually perfect because this is the place of imagination, right? |
| 1:23.2 | You are a city forced in the imagination of an enslaved person to create a create the city. |
| 1:28.6 | I didn't mention I did a book with Donda West too who taught here. So the ties are really strong. |
| 1:34.9 | But I think about, you know, from Farrakhan to Jeremiah Wright to the first president of the United |
| 1:40.9 | States coming from this space more than just having a degree |
| 1:46.0 | and I heard somebody backstage a very wise woman said it is finished quoting |
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