DAVID HORNE'S DECADE OF THE DIASPORA GOES BACK TO SCHOOL WITH A CRITICAL LOOK AT 'THE STATE OF BLACK STUDIES'
Tonight, September 10th, Prof. David Horne's 'Decade of the Diaspora' will take its listeners 'Back to School' with an engaging discussion on 'The State of Black Studies' with special guest scholars Amilcar Shabazz and Akinyele Umoja!
The show airs at 10pm EST on the Harambee Radio Network (www.HarambeeRadio.com).
Black Studies, as a discipline, is the intellectual child of the Black Liberation Movement of the 1960s. The grandchild of what was Negro History Week and later Black History Month, it is considered the University- based vehicle to develop meaningful interdisciplinary scholarship on the global African experience.
It has had its moments of vibrancy and is considered the institutional background to what is now known as 'AfroCentricity,' a contemporary ideological challenge to the EuroCentric character of educational institutions in the Western World.
However, the emergence of a Right wing conservative national landscape of the past 25 years or so in the United States has some seen concerted efforts to cut, shrink and dissolve such programs all over the country.
Tonight's show will look where this important discipline is now in these, the last days of the 'Era of Obama.'
"Decade is proud to have two important carriers of this tradition in Professors Amilcar Shabazz and Akinyele Umoja to provide a timely examination of where Black Studies is now, where it needs to go and where it is challenged," says an enthusiastic Zayid Muhammad, the show's publicist and associate producer.
Amilcar Shabazz is the former chair of the highly touted WEB DuBois Dept of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is currently the faculty advisor for diversity and excellence at the University's Campus Leadership Council. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas. He is probably best known for co-editing the seminal classic 40 Acres Documents: What Did the United States Really Promise the People Freed From Slavery, with the late Imari Obadele and his wife Johnita Scott Obadele.
Akinyele Umoja is the author of We Will Shoot Back, the cutting edge tome on armed Black Resistance in Mississippi, often regarding as the most violently repressive Jim Crow southern state. He is currently at Georgia State University. Now an elder in both activist and scholarly circles, he is a fresh, but exceedingly rare example, of the scholar as activist. He has been a key figure in the national development of Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for decades.
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