S E426: In Class with Carr-LIVE (Ep. 43): On the Origins of Kwanzaa and Much More!

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

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 199 minutes

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Happy Kwanzaa! Umoja. Unity. On this first day of Kwanzaa, Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr on Twitter) breaks down the history of the holiday as well as a deeper dive into the winter solstice. We are joined by surprise guest, Michael Harriot (@MichaelHarriot on Twitter), from TheRoot.com who shares some personal history of his his family who were in bondage. And we finish with questions from Brasil to Columbus, Ohio., Houston, Texas to Moorestown, NJ.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.
0:12.0	All right, welcome to another edition, the 43rd edition. Hey, Dr. Carr, happy Kwanza. Happy.
0:19.6	Happy.
0:20.6	Happy Kwanza, they say her, habaragoni.
0:29.7	Okay, you know, I was thinking yesterday was kind of, you posted this whole thing about the, you know, the non-white woman with the baby and the fiance and you know I feel like I don't want to
0:35.7	crap on Christmas but never never never want to crap on Christmas because we all
0:40.1	have our traditions and you know watching Shonda Rhymes is her bridge
0:47.0	a 10 so we're gonna talk a little bit of, just a little, I just
0:50.0	want to court the sister, I watched a little bit of Soul which is amazing Pixar and jazz and it's just
0:56.7	beautiful beautifully shot beautifully done yeah and I started watching Wonder Woman and cut it off because it was I ain't gonna talk about it, but we're not we're not doing that not today not today but last thing her theme is the best theme in the DC universe in terms of the music.
1:14.7	Do do do nen nen nen nen nen nen what a waste anyway.
1:18.8	Hey, Shonda Rhymes, I did 15 minutes of it just so I could say I saw.
1:25.0	Yeah, yeah, it's car is not for you.
1:28.0	It's a soap opera, you know, it's it's.
1:30.0	I don't mind soap opera and I like period pieces. I there's alchemy and period pieces you know but you know I've kind of felt about I feel about it I think I'm going to feel about it the way I feel about Seinfeld you know Seinfeld is cool to you start putting black people in it or curb your enthusiasm is cool to start putting black people in.
1:46.0	No words, don't don't do that because keep it stay in you know.
1:51.0	Stay in your lane.
1:52.0	Okay, we're going to talk about that. But I last, you dropped something about the winter solstice and then this whole soul,
2:01.6	souul, solstice thing started trending and people thought they were going to get
2:05.2	superpowers.
2:06.2	It was a thing.
2:07.8	So I was like, let's come back to the winter solstice because you messed me up when you
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