Blog: Speak to Mekhet
Mekhet:
"After in the sense of before, alongside, or preceding..."
Du Bois’s foundation for knowing however is rooted in a culture that survived plantation slavery to essentially spearhead contemporary movements for societal change—the Black radical tradition.
Read MoreWhat ends up being the central conflict in early American history is the “internal enemy.” The exception that forever disproves the mythic rule. Human beings who must be prevented from being human.
Read MoreThat unidentifiable, unresolved, gnawing feeling that we had, you articulated. We only knew something was wrong, but because you convened with the ancestors who had experienced that same feeling, you helped us identify that thing
Read MoreFor Africans, “history” became the animating force that determined how we might do something, based on how it was done
Read MoreBaraka taught us, and will continue to teach us that “art” too—by being connected, by connecting one’s self to those who came before, and knowing that our work will affect those who will come, “the beautyful ones that are not yet born”—will ensure our freedom, our liberation.
Read MoreIn Africana Studies, methodological concerns need not precede research projects; they might have to be pursued in tandem
Read MoreWhat Moses’s and other less sympathetic studies in this area portend is the negation of an analysis that considers that nationalist thought was indeed complicatedly, but assuredly, a rhythmic iteration of African deep thought.
Read MoreWhat will Africans do? Or in the words of the late John Henrik Clarke, “Who speaks for Africa in the new world order?”
Read MoreFor in this essay, Du Bois not only reframes the question of race, he establishes the idea that races are indeed the movers of history and the future relies on the abilities of these human groups to contribute to the world in ways that only they can
Read MoreHistory is not merely the recorded past. It is the living memory of human groups attempting to make sense of the present
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