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In Class with Carr

S E446: In Class with Carr, Ep. 49: The Importance of Black History Month

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

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

4.9 β€’ 972 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr on Twitter) breaks down the origins and importance of Black History Month with a reading from the works of Lerone Bennett Jr. There is Q&A from the audience, Stew from Augusta, Ga., by way of South Carolina and 19-year-old Kaleb from Chicago add major nuggets to the discussion. #CarterGWoodson​ #BlackHistoryMonth​ #MichaelDavis​ #LeroneBennett​ #InClasswithCarr

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Welcome to another edition actually the 49th class.

0:14.0

In class 49 with 49 class with car, Dr. Great car.

0:19.0

Good morning.

0:20.0

Good morning. Good morning.

0:22.0

Let me take a little. Shout out to the Netherlands. Morning. I was watching coming in folk in here since 10 a 10 a morning.

0:34.8

Man, we look very happy that everybody is here. In fact, my man way Mohammed from

0:39.6

London, the brother who did the Malcolm X made in America comics.

0:43.0

He sent me a box.

0:44.1

I opened the box.

0:45.1

He emailed me.

0:45.7

I remember and it was this.

0:48.1

I said, man, this is, I don't have no bust around.

0:51.9

This is a Malcolm X. Oh, and it's perfect.

0:54.7

Isn't that nice? Oh no, they did. The King's that you don't look like Martin with the King, the one of you.

1:00.0

That's my fraternity, I'm not going to do the brothers because I'm a proud member of Alfalfa, but, you know, I think, are there no black sculptors? They pick the Chinese sculptor to make the Dr King statue. And I understand it from the sense that there is a kind of monumental style that emerged out of China, so that King's statue does look like it will come out of the rock walk over the Potomac

1:26.5

the basin there and whip Thomas Jefferson's but if you look just somebody look just like Dr King yeah, you can find a sister who in fact we're going to talk about a sister sculpture today I think.

1:39.0

Oh, okay listen, I'm I'm at but I just I wanted to just say first of all thank you everyone who's here appreciate the time that people put in on a Saturday and whenever you watch this you know

1:49.4

Commit a couple of hours to the community and also to yourself is all we should be doing right now.

1:56.8

So I'm just grateful that more and more people are plugging into this and I'm so grateful for you

2:02.2

and just answering the call every single week and beyond because we do stuff even during the week because we're putting some stuff together to make sure the history is immutable.

2:12.8

Like we, this is the time to put those tracks down

2:16.3

that will be ripped up.

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