This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Welcome to In Class with Carr. We already started and I just hit record so that's what we do.

Let me thank you and brother appreciate you again as always.

There's a couple of things that I want to talk about today but let's

start where your heart is and you said you were talking to some kids or some students

yesterday?

Yeah, we have the Center for Black Educators in Philadelphia, Barbara Sheerif El Mecky, and he has been an

educator, high school principal teacher for many, many years.

And we've had Philadelphia Freedom Schools for the last 21 years.

And so now we've all joined forces.

And so we have our regular, we're coming to the end of our summer cycle.

We've been reading W.B. Du Bois' The Education of Black People, which is a very important

series of speeches that Du Bois gave at Black Colleges, several at Fisk, Hampton, Howard, Lincoln College in Jefferson City, Missouri, a speech he gave to

social studies teachers and professionals at Johnson C. Smith University.

The last one he gave, in fact, major speech he gave to black educators before he left for Africa, for Ghana in 1960.

So we have a lot of high school students who are reading that, discussing that, and they teach elementary and middle school age young people and so yesterday we had a

conversation the center had a conversation and I was particularly I was

pretty grateful for this conversation because they pulled together teachers and

elders and community folks who were working in the city of Philadelphia and I got to sit there

quietly and take notes which that's my first love I just sit there and take I'm like I'm I ain't

no questions no I'm listening because what you're saying is making me ask questions

it's like what are you know folks have you know I read in the comments and

YouTube people like yeah I'm taking those I got to do that and so you know I read in the comments and YouTube people like I'm taking those I got to do that and so you know what really

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