Black Past Black Futures

Dr. Corrie Claiborne talks with Dr. Richard Benson about the education of Black people and Critical Race Theory. Dr. Benson's profile: https://www.spelman.edu/academics/faculty/directory/profile/richard-benson Dr. Benson's book, Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/22031?tab=aboutauthor James D. Anderson's book, The Education of Blacks in the South: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807842218/the-education-of-blacks-in-the-south-1860-1935/ Watch Actor Daveed Diggs' modern interpretation of Frederick Douglass' speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” entitled “What to My People Is the Fourth of July?”: https://www.colorlines.com/articles/actor-daveed-diggs-asks-what-my-people-fourth-july Fela Kuti, “Water No Get Enemy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kisTH3SFegc Gil Scott-Heron: “We Almost Lost Detroit”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpNUqNe0U5g “Whitey On the Moon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4

Dr. Corrie Claiborne talks with Dr. Daniel Black about mentorship, education, writing, and hosting Spiritual Time video broadcasts. Dr. Black's biography can be found here: https://us.macmillan.com/author/danielblack/ Acknowledgements AUC Woodruff Library Digital Repository (RADAR) provides hosting for historical materials in the AUC: https://radar.auctr.edu/ Africana Digital Ethnography Project (ADEPt) provides music for this podcast: https://africanadept.org/

In this first episode, Dr. Corrie Claiborne interviews Dr. Samuel Livingston about his research, including the 1526 Project and Gullah Geechee history and culture. Dr. Livingston's biography: https://www.morehouse.edu/faculty-profiles-home/first-and-last-name-23702-en.html "Mapping the Low Country" article: https://auctr.on.worldcat.org/oclc/8419433639 Julius S. Scott, "The Common Wind": https://auctr.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1053198144 "Legacy of Igbo Landing": https://auctr.on.worldcat.org/oclc/39723608 AUC Woodruff Library Digital Repository, RADAR: https://radar.auctr.edu/ Africana Digital Ethnography Project, ADEPt: https://africanadept.org/