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S1 EP9 - BLACK STUDIES W/ABDUL ALKALIMAT: Black Studies Past, Present and Future, Origins of the Movement, Activism, Scholarship + more artwork

S1 EP9 - BLACK STUDIES W/ABDUL ALKALIMAT: Black Studies Past, Present and Future, Origins of the Movement, Activism, Scholarship + more

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In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the 14-year-old Black male being held in a headlock and tasered to the ground by a UK police officer and the problem with Black Employment Month aka Black History Month.  - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Abdul Alkalimat, Black Studies OG and professor emeritus of African American Studies about what is Black studies, his books "The History of Black Studies" (2021) and "The Future of Black Studies" (2022) the battle for Black Studies in the US and the UK, and Black students today and our future.  Abdul Alkalimat (PhD University of Chicago) is one of the founders of the Black Studies movement, involved in the Black Radical Congress and Institute for the Black World, and a professor emeritus (retired) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He was one of three founders of the Organisation of Black American Culture (OBAC) and served as its first chairperson. - Outcry as shocking footage shows police tasering 14-year-old boy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-taser-black-teenager-birmingham-b2431070.html The History of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344225/the-history-of-black-studies/ The Future of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347004/the-future-of-black-studies/ Black Studies www.blackstudies.net https://web.archive.org/web/20230330200305/http://blackstudies.net/ Abdul Alkalimat https://alkalimat.org/ The Ideology of Black Social Science  https://alkalimat.org/426%20ALKALIMAT%20and%20McWORTER%20-%201969%20-%20THE%20IDEOLOGY%20OF%20BLACK%20SOCIAL%20SCIENCE.pdf/ The Death of White Sociology by Joyce Ladner - Guest: Abdul Alkalimat Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS More Book Tour Dates (this month):  https://linktr.ee/KehindeAndrews 25th October London School of Economics, Sheikh Zayed Theatre 28th October Black British Book Festival, Southbank Centre  Buy the Book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

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