GOOD MONDAY MORNING, P.O.U.! This week we'll look at Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s six-part series, Africa's Great Civilizations, which recently aired on PBS. PART I: ORIGINS … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Africa’s Great Civilizations
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Saturday Open Thread: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Dr. Henry Louis Gates
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