#black scholars

[3rdeyeblaque]

On March 24th we venerate Brother John Mason Brewer on his birthday🎉

An iconic folklorist, historian, scholar, educator, storyteller, poet, & quadlingial speaker, John Mason Brewer dedicated his 50-year long career, between the early 1900s to the 60s, to the documentation & preservation of Afrikan & Afrikan descendant narratives across the South, particularly his home state of Texas.

It was from the love & education instilled within him by his father & grandfather before him that spurred his barrier-shattering academic career, pursuing his B.A. in English & M.A. in Folklore, & professional career as a lifelong educator/professor and lecturer; in an era that many deemed nearly impossible to fathom. Though long before he was awarded prestigious grants for his outstanding contributions in research and the education of folk traditions among our people in the U.S. & the Caribbean & befriending the likes of U.S. presidents & other notable figures, Brother Mason spent his life fascinated by the tales & belief systems of our people that, over the years since the Great Migration & WWII, became best preserved in the South. He wrote and published a plethora of poems, books, and articles on Afrikan-American & Afrikan-Carribean history & folklore. If not for his unyielding presence in higher academia & public research institutions, and relentless pursuit of the preservation of Afrikan Ancestral voices in oral tradition & literature, centuries of wealth in knowledge and history of our people would be lost.

We give libations & well deserved 💐 today for his ancestral teachings & wisedom, delivered to us via the masterful art of storytelling and poetry & for lifelong work in unearthing & preserving a legacy ancestral voices never to be forgotten.

Offering suggestions: share/read his literary and academic work, a Methodist Bible/verse, & libations of water.

[blackbrownfamily]

[teach-or-trav]

Studying 📚 the craft and learning about the music business, and music publishing.

How yall like my study aesthetic? 🤔💯

[evermoreismychild]

regulus: it’s like we finish each other’s—

james: …homework

regulus: ???

james, in tears, sliding his potions work over to reg: please

[arthropooda]

The DeSantis administration had rejected the course as part of a crusade against what it’s called “woke” education, then celebrated the College Board’s revised curriculum released earlier this month. But the College Board alleged in its statement that DeSantis—who is rumored to be considering a presidential bid in 2024—always intended to shut down the course for political reasons. 

The College Board statement says that the conversation over the AP African-American Studies curriculum “has moved from healthy debate to misinformation,” and that the organization needed “to clear the air and set the record straight.”

“We deeply regret not immediately denouncing the Florida Department of Education’s slander, magnified by the DeSantis administration’s subsequent comments, that African American Studies ‘lacks educational value,’” said the statement, which is only attributed to the College Board. “Our failure to raise our voice betrayed Black scholars everywhere and those who have long toiled to build this remarkable field.”

[vane-sya]

Ancient Scholar by AndrejZT

[chrollohearttags]

when you realize 75% of this app has zero media literacy, the reading comprehension skills of a wet gym sock and the attention span of a fucking goldfish, you won’t feel so bad about your work or take these opinions seriously. Expecting people with a 3rd grade reading level and the plagiarism skills of an amateur thief to have anything good to say about creative writing is asking too much . Lower you expectations.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the doctor isnt neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or nonbinary or genderqueer or asexual. what the doctor is, is Not From Here

[valkariel]

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[theotherrookie]

@two-black-leviathans continued from here

"…Nah, it doesn't really help." Knowing others were having a bad time usually didn’t make her feel any better.

Rook paused briefly to check Thea's reaction. It seemed the pup still had some energy in herself to socialize.

"Why don't you get someone else to do that stuff? It isn't as if they can refuse."

[garadinervi]

Assata Shakur, Women In Prison (1978) & Free AlI Black Liberation Fighters (1973), Color Collective Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

[transcriptions of two letters written by Assata Shakur while held in captivity at Rikers Island prison]

Plus: Assata Shakur, Women in Prison: How we are, «The Black Scholar» – Journal of Black Studies and Research, Volume 9, Issue 7: Blacks & The Sexual Revolution, April 1978, pp. 8-15 (pdf here) [The Freedom Archives, San Francisco, CA]

[wlwaerith]

dancer in the dawn.

[nerves-nebula]

maybe its just me but it does actually kinda piss me off when ppl respond to others posts about like theory or politics or something with "name 3 black scholars without looking it up" or "name the black woman who wrote about this without looking her up" cuz like. shut the fuck up.

as if memorizing people's names is more important than the ideas that are represented. i've got a shit memory dickhead i don't remember most of my classmates names and i see them in real life!

but more importantly than that- black people aren't fucking political pokemon for you to prove your superiority about by spouting off more of our names than your opponent. christ.

[tau1tvec]

[femalethink]

What we see today in the development of the women's liberation movement is the beginning of the entrance of woman into history, the woman beginning to speak for the woman. The woman beginning to understand, analyze the history of woman; the woman seeking the roots of the source of her oppression in order to be able to deal with this. ....

It's not a personal struggle for the personal liberation of individual women, and it's not a class struggle for the liberation of women in individual classes. It's a struggle to totally alter and rearrange the values and organization of a society that allows women to be forced into a position of submission, a position of secondary significance, a position of dependency, and a position of inferiority vis a vis men that has no concrete, irreversible actual basis in fact.

—Kathleen Cleaver and Julia Herve, The Black Scholar Interviews: Kathleen Cleaver