GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! We hope you're enjoying your weekend. Cornel West wasn't the only Black scholar taken to task by the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke. In 1992, Dr. Henry Louis Gates wrote an op-ed piece for The New York Times entitled "Black Demagogues and Pseudo-Scholars, where he accused Black Americans of being more anti-Semitic than white Americans, and said Black … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Dr. Henry Louis Gates
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Tuesday Evening Thread: Black Is Beautiful!
PBS: The Many Rivers To Cross - Afros, Soul Train and Self-Love “Black is Beautiful” came out of the Black Power movement. But it quickly permeated the American cultural mainstream in the adoption of the Afro hairstyle and Afro-centric fashion. Blackness, or “soul,” became the epitome of cool in popular films, music and advertising. By 1969 there were black characters on 21 … [Read more...] about Tuesday Evening Thread: Black Is Beautiful!