Black History Month

RBG Black History Month 24 / 7 / 365 Wikizine-2011

RBG Black History Month

24 / 7 / 365 Wikizine-2011

Visit the RBG DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE STUDIES COLLECTION

Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Black Nationalist Pan-Afrikanist warrior scholar, historian, prolific writer, educator and mentor of international proportions. His Education towards Afrikan Liberation paradigm and praxis has inspired for generations past and will continue to inspire for generations to come. Although he was Professor of African World History that in 1969 became the founding chairman of the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York, we must remember, he was one of our last self-taught scholars. He was the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center. And in 1968 Dr. Clarke founded the African Heritage Studies Association. And with all that high–powered accomplishment, all that scholarship at his command; I can still vividly recall Dr. Clarke once saying “my greatest hour in education is not as a Chairman, not as Assist Dean, but in that classroom watching those eyes come alive as I pour out information and make it significant to them, so they could become different and better human being; giving them the strength to challenge that world out there.” From: Dr. John Henrik Clarke's Impact on the Hip Hop Generation, by RBG Street Scholar

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RBG DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE COLLECTION

Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998).

Dr. Clarke is RBG's Dean of Africana and Black Studies. He is one of our greatest African-American historian, scholar and Pan-Afrikan activist. In the Communiversity our point of entry into Dr. Clarke's gifts left to us is the documentary by Wesely Snipes, A Great and Mighty Walk is both a biography of Dr. Clarke himself and an overview of 5,000 years of African history, the film offers a provocative look at the past through the eyes of a leading proponent of an Afrocentric view of history. From ancient Egypt and Africa's other great empires, Dr. Clarke moves through Mediterranean borrowings, the Atlantic slave trade, European colonization, the development of the Pan-African movement, and present-day African-American history.

500 Years Later : documentary film directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah,

written by M.K. Asante, Jr.

American Slave Narratives-A RBG Blakademics 2011

Black History Month Special

RBG Blakademics Minister Malcolm X Studies Portal Guide

The History of Slavery in America-A RBG Black History Month Multi-media Special-CLICK TO DOWNLOAD

A Black Perspective of American History- An e-Book for Download

FILM DESCRIPTION: "They were stolen from their homes, locked in chains and taken across an ocean. And for more than 200 years, their blood and sweat would help to build the richest and most powerful nation the world has ever known. But when slavery ended, their wme was over. America's wealthy elite had decided it was time for them to disappear and they were not particular about how it might be done. What you are about to see is that the plan these people set in motion 150 years ago is still being carried out today. So don't think that this is history. Is not. It is happening right here, and it's happening right now."

SOURCE: http://www.maafa21.com/

See Intro to RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Multi Media e-Journal: "History is a Weapon in Taking Off the White Mask"

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Martin Luther King - Black And Proud

From Before the Maafa to Dred Scott to the Patroit Act

Dred Scott Decision: The Lawsuit That Started The Civil War

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants — whether or not they were slaves — could never be citizens of the United States, and that the United States Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. The Court also ruled that slaves could not sue in court, and that slaves — as chattel or private property — could not be taken away from their owners without due process. The Court in the Dred Scott decision sided with border ruffians in the Bleeding Kansas dispute who were afraid a free Kansas would be a haven for runaway slaves from Missouri. The Supreme Court's decision was written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney... Learn more

Franz Fanon Say:

"Racism is one of the most sick and twisted manifestations of White/European people’s oppression, exploitation and domination of humanity...although not all White/European people are racist, they benefit from it in one way or another and knowingly allow racism to exist…its reach is international in scope and transcends economic, political, social and spiritual belief systems...it is an evil and violent social construct used to justify White/European people’s crimes against humanity and to breed inferiority, fear and disunity among Black, Brown, Red and Yellow people...It has been the cause of untold pain and suffering to People of Color around the world…it is the single greatest problem humanity faces today…if we are ever to rise as the HUMAN RACE every one of us must defeat racism in all its shapes and forms (individual, institutional and cultural)…the struggle to end racism must be a collective one that begins in our hearts and minds…we must rise above our dependency on White/European systems and societies and connect with the creator and each other…our struggle against racism will be measured by how we think, feel and act towards ourselves, our marriages, our families and our communities in Africa and around the world...independent of White/European ideas, values, morals and paradigms."

RBG Introduction to Frantz Fanon Studies