S E419: In Class with Dr. Greg Carr (Ep.42): Ma Rainey, Stephen Biko, Negro League and the 1776 Commission

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

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 153 minutes

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When does American history begin? On his way out of the door, Donald Trump is pushing through a 1776 Commission to counter the 1619 narrative. Dr. Greg Carr, head of Africana Studies at Howard University, discusses how we should learn and understand history. He and Karen also spend some time on Ma Rainey, Stephen Biko and the inclusion of the Negro League stats into Major League Baseball. There is LIVE Q&A with viewers after class.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.
0:11.1	Okay, we're live.
0:11.1	Okay, we're live. Welcome to another edition of In Class with Dr. Gray car. I'm Karen Hunter, of course, your host. And we already started class before y'all got here. So, sure did. We were trying to hold back. Well. Well you try to hold me back because I was
0:24.7	Oh my God all right just one since I am afternoon morning this morning somewhere
0:30.9	it's afternoon in the evening let me say hello to everyone who's in here from
0:34.3	Toronto to Saudi Arabia to Nebraska to St Louis people got in here at 941 a.m. Eastern
0:40.4	into that I was like okay let me just come in and say hello in the chat room.
0:44.4	Yeah this buddy it's good to see y'all good to be seen as old folks saying that view.
0:53.0	We were gonna do Anna Hadjeman, but that's not gonna happen today.
0:57.0	Anna's sitting over there looking to me like, really, bro?
1:00.0	I'm like, this, you got, you need to do do multiple days plus there's all kind of things that have come out in fact
1:06.8	Karen I know we were supposed to do macheta the queen of sheba sometime ago but in the meantime I just
1:11.7	picked up this little thing there's a number of these little volumes by Ohio University Press and their partner in South Africa called the short histories of Africa. This one came out in the last couple of months by Nwondo Achebe called Female
1:25.8	Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa.
1:28.9	This is a very inexpensive, these are very inexpensive volumes.
1:32.4	I'm looking over here. These are very inexpensive volumes.
1:34.0	I'm looking over here.
1:34.9	Most of the ones I have, I got the first ones
1:38.6	when I was in South Africa, but they are partners
1:40.9	Ohio University Press.
1:42.1	And these are like, they're under $20,
1:44.3	16, $17. But she goes through a nice table of contents. She goes through a nice discussion of women throughout African history. So I said, you know what? We'll get Anna paired up with some of these sisters and get the momentum running. So I mean, I just got that a couple days ago. So this morning this afternoon
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