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This Is Karen Hunter

S E391: Professor P. Gabrielle Foreman: "Black People Have ALWAYS Organized!"

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Once upon Black people organized and set agendas and had a strategy for empowerment. And they kept organizing. Prof. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director of "The Colored Conventions Project," discusses this history with Karen and Drew McCaskill.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. And joining us for the first time, but I don't think it'll be the last because I think this is going to be a conversation we have to continue to have.

0:19.0

She is the founding director of the College Convention Project. She's also co-director Center for Black Digital Research,

0:25.1

Professor of English, African American Studies

0:27.4

in History at Penn State University,

0:29.7

senior library, fellow, and affiliate Faculty at the University of Delaware.

0:33.7

I'm putting it all in there.

0:35.0

Let me welcome the one and only Professor Gabrielle, Foreman, welcome.

0:39.3

It's so good to be here.

0:41.3

Thank you for having me.

0:42.4

Listen, as we It's so good to be here. Thank you for having me.

0:43.0

Listen, as we were having this conversation and we've been having it off mic on mic on

0:48.6

Saturday on YouTube everywhere we can have it. We always say,

0:52.8

Larie actually says, what Africans have done,

0:54.8

Africans can do.

0:56.0

And Africans have been doing the work

0:58.8

to organize and to figure out what our plan should be since we got here.

1:04.0

And you're now bringing all of this together.

1:08.0

So talk a little bit about the founding of this colored convention project.

1:12.0

Well, the color convention project brings of this Colleards Convention project.

1:21.0

Well, the Colle Conventions Project brings 70 years of black political organizing in the 19th century to digital life at color conventions.org. And you can find all the records there of a really diverse set of tactics to go back to what

1:29.3

Professor Card was saying to get us to our objective which is black freedom black dignity

1:34.8

black power and full and equal citizenship in this country and beyond right so

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