In Class with Carr

What happens when a train barrels down a track and reaches a junction where the signal to slow or stop has failed? It keeps moving at full speed—toward collision or derailment—a looming disaster now determined only by momentum. What happens when we miss signals, not only as individuals or communities, but as countries? In a social moment increasingly shaped by cognitive overload, familiar signals we once used to regulate social direction are increasingly decentered. Our capacities to filter, interpret, and respond increasingly overwhelmed by manufactured confusion, we risk barreling toward an uncertain future, forgetting that we have the power to regulate our movement, our pace, or our destinations. The “tracks” of a country—or of countries within a world system—its infrastructure, its capacity, its ability to build new routes, reroute, or more efficiently manage collective movement, remain in our hands when we build our capacity to act at critical mass. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What does it mean to have and to nurture the ability to take in information and convert it to action? What happens if the mechanism for taking in that light in the mind’s eye is damaged or not well tended to? Those gathered at the 8th Black Male Educator Convening in Philadelphia, are considering this year’s theme: “Power to the Pupil: History, Hip Hop, & the Future of Teaching & Learning.” Together, we are modeling and discussing how to take in light—information, history, experience—and convert it into action. How do adults empower our community by ensuring that our children’s pupils–their capacity for taking in information and processing it through unblocked memory–are healthy and unobstructed? We are reminded that the contemporary global and US Social Structure has consistently tried to block our pupils in order to advance the goals of a few at the expense of the many.. To empower ourselves, we much protect and expand the pupil of the mind’s eye. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this session of In Class With Carr, real estate violence against the East Wing of the White House becomes the latest point of entry to examine the latest episode of the US “demolition derby”—the conflict and renegotiation of the political architecture and collective memory of a United States under siege by the latest assault of an increasingly desperate and fascist white nationalism. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The early November state and local elections held in the United State are part of a broader global wave of resistance to rising inequality and predatory government. From Tanzania and Madagascar to Bangladesh and Nepal, popular uprisings have triggered sudden changes in governments—or threatened to do so. In the United States, this week’s results reflect popular and voter response to deepening inequities and the widely unpopular policies of a Trump administration serving as a delivery system for long-desired hard-right initiatives backed by billionaires, think tanks, assorted neofascists and a deeply diseducated voting base mobilized and deployed through fear and manipulation of racial division and cultural grievance. In the aftermath of political shifts—large and small—people engaged in struggle, whether through elections, popular mobilization, or both, understandably take “victory laps,” in the wake of what appear to be watershed moments. These celebrations are often followed by policymaking disappointments, followed by renewed calls to stay committed to the longer fight, typically through deploying the same tactics that produced the incremental victories. What lessons from the current U.S. electoral moment might guide our next steps? JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week’s conversation, “Day of the Trick,” invites us to explore how deception, ritual, and resistance intertwine. We’ll look at how Trick-or-Treat traditions of Halloween can be contrasted with rituals of generosity and remembrance in Ways of Knowing such as the Day of the Dead. How does manipulation, coercion, and transactional power threaten the work of mutual care? How does resistance reveal the weakness of deception itself? We’ll also consider deeper questions: What is the role of sacrifice in reshaping state power? How can Cultural Meaning-Making help us imagine a better society? And how can recovering momentum through studying Movement and Memory help us draw strength from past generations in order to work toward more a better world today?” JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In session 294 of In Class With Carr, real estate violence against the East Wing of the White House becomes the latest point of entry to examine the latest episode of the US “demolition derby”—the conflict and renegotiation of the political architecture and collective memory of a United States under siege by the latest assault of an increasingly desperate and fascist white nationalism. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this session, we explore acts of Cultural Meaning-Making and Movement and Memory as antidotes to fast-spreading poisons of disinformation and White nationalist distortion threatening African progress and the broader society. This week marks the birthdays of George Washington Williams, Lerone Bennett Jr. and Kerry James Marshall. We are reminded by their practice and genealogies of the power of nurturing imagination through reading and writing and empowering tools of proactive learning and community building. On the eve of the “No Kings” protests, arguments in the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais voting rights case and data in Onyx Impact’s new Blackout Report reveal how disinformation works to attempt to erase truth and representation, underscoring the urgency of creating spaces that nurture those indispensable elements of better Social Structures. These practices of cultural preservation and Black institutional empowerment demand renewed vigilance, truth-telling, and narrative restoration as acts of collective defense and cultural strategy. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this session, we use the Africana Studies Framework to reflect on continuities and disruptions in US and global Social Structures and how thinking in and with Africana Governance formations must lead to rejuvenating and sharing connections between memory, ritual and vision. How do we move beyond distractions to embrace ancestral wisdom in order to renew and best utilize our genealogies? Gleaning insight from a variety of past and immediate experiences, this session asks, are we the embodiment of dreams and sacrifices that made our lives possible? Should that even be a guiding question? What are or should we be focused on to do in these times of collapse, reformation and potential renegotiation? JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarrn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the 291st session of In Class With Carr, we explore the question: Can America Continue? Fresh from a gathering with legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray, we connect past and present to examine how a US Social Structure grounded and reliant on a global network of unequal labor and exclusion, is speeding its inevitable and perhaps dispositive existential crisis. We juxtapose broadly inclusive Ways of Knowing against the threat of religious extremism and nationalism, the erosion of goals of pluralistic governance, and the desperate advance of metaphors of culture war. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On Thursday, September 25, 2025, Assata Olugbala Shakur made transition in Cuba. In Chapter 3 of her autobiography, she contrasts the long history of criminal assaults against African people by Western Social Structures with the work of African resistance grounded in self-determining Governance spaces, closing her famous July 4, 1973, “To My People” recording with the powerful words: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” This week, we reflect on the ongoing assaults on freedom and community by U.S. state actors, the growing resistance to white nationalism and state fascism, and the vital role of study, memory, and collective action in confronting, neutralizing, and ultimately overcoming these forces. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What happens when manufactured grievances are used to shape politics, mass and social media, and even a sense of government? This week, we explore how economic inequity, white nationalism, and billionaire-driven media power collide to enable a modern playbook for authoritarian control. Why are independent platforms and civic education so crucial at this point in the US and world Social Structure? And how do we leverage Governance relationships to resist censorship, immunize ourselves against political hypocrisy, and disperse rising fascism? JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this moment in US history, fear has been weaponized as a political tool, using white nationalist rhetoric to target anyone who can be cast as a political enemy. Terms like “The Left” become labels for “enemies of the people” of “enemies of our country,” shifting categories that include anyone who refuses to conform to narrow and white nativist politics. Whenever claims of blameless white nationalism collapse, the claims simply change shape, becoming more and more nonsensical and impossible to pin down. The only constant is that “the people” and/or “our country” remain exclusionary concepts propelled forward always by fear and hatred of moving targets of perceived enemies. Meanwhile, African people—both descendants of the trafficked and the rest of the Black world—are a fixed entity among the moving targets. The wider non-White world and all those who choose to act in solidarity with our common humanity over racial exclusion are judged in relation to their generosity, seen as weakness by those who choose exclusionary fear and hate instead. As a result, threats to everyone’s lives are real and persistent in a Social Structure where anyone can become an enemy at any moment. But there is another reality: The reality of our vastness, our reach and our capacity to outlast fear-based politics. We are everywhere, impossible to silence or eliminate. Every attempt to destroy us only reveals the hatreds at the heart of white supremacy and the politics of fear. We cannot be erased. And we can and must act to change the world. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt’s September 2, 2025,speech delivered at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, DC was a white nationalist battle cry, the latest volley in a growing war on truth. These assaults on our common humanity are naked attempts to seize public resources to reshape the US state and the contemporary world system. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the US Social Structure, Labor Day weekend is both a ritual of Summer’s ending and a potential lens for examining how labor, Cultural Meaning-Making and love in Africana Ways of Knowing fuel the Momentum of Movement and Memory. In the rituals of this season, from the Annual West Indian American Labor Day Parade to anniversaries of the 1963 March on Washington and the 1955 murder of Emmett Louis Till which prompted the March’s August 28 date, Africana Studies opens a window for us to think how celebration intertwines with struggle. Africana Ways of Knowing commingle the work of justice and memory, prompting us to also consider how and where we spend our labor and what we owe to past and future generations. True “labors of love” emerge in lives and communities that choose self-governance and self-determination over blind compliance with oppression and that resist exploitation and affirm human dignity across time and space. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The formal academic school year is underway in most places in a United States facing accelerated fascist overtures from elements in federal and state governments. Memories of Anti-Black state action evoked at the 20th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster can be juxtaposed against current attacks on both state and African memory and education to remind us that we live in a moment demanding more of us than compliance. We must look to ourselves, both to survive and to grow. Other anniversaries we consider this week include the birthday of Asa G. Hilliard III, a pioneering educator who used his platform to remind us of our best practices in education across time and space. As we continue our work of jailbreaking the Black University, this week we continue to pose more essential questions: What is education? What should it be? How do we meet the challenge of both defending hard-won political victories and of building institutions that can sustain us against escalating fascism, white nationalism and cultural amnesia. Strengthening the Momentum of Memory provides an action that reminds us that, when we have grounded ourselves in our Ways of Knowing, we have transformed ourselves and the Social Structures we have found ourselves in in recent memory. The challenge before us is to do it again. It is time to go Black to School. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the United States, the back-to-school season signals more than just a return to “traditional” classrooms—in a moment of open white nationalist warfare on our common humanity, it is also a moment for renewed reflection on origins, connections, and relationships. This fall, a new iteration of that search in the discipline of Africana Studies takes shape with the launch of “The Black University,” an open public course running in parallel with a Howard University class that initiates students into a deeper investigation of the meaning and purpose of Black educational institutions. Rooted in our ongoing project to “Jailbreak the Black University,” the course will center on uncovering the origins of Africana Ways of Knowing, Governance formations, and the search for connected traces of Movement and Memory. As our annual Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) Study Tour draws to a close, we are guided by a central conviction: A search for “foundational Blackness” is essential to understanding and advancing the intellectual and cultural traditions of the African world. This pursuit of “foundational Blackness”—tracing the origins, structures, and living memory of Africana educational and cultural practices—is a critical effort for reimagining and revitalizing Black institutions today. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our Annual Nile Valley study tour continues the process of strengthening the work of Africana Studies as a tool for jailbreaking the university and renewing deeper traditions of community-centered education. Inspired by a 1996 exchange between Greg Kimathi Carr and Jacob Carruthers—where Carruthers urged embracing language and concepts from Mdw Ntr over attempting to repurpose European concepts as a form of Africana hermeneutics—this week’s reflections link Carruthers’ notion of ancient Kemet’s governance-through-education process to the “Black University” as a concept. Against a Social Structure hellbent on bending collective memory to serve exclusion, fear, and hatred, this annual study tour affirms education as the highest expression of self-determined nationhood, peoplehood, and statehood. This fall, Carr will teach The Black University in a public format, constructing a syllabus open to all, to explore African people’s uncompromising commitment to communal intellectual life, rooted in ancestral guidance and seeking to inspire others to join in liberating knowledge from institutional restraints. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Can we live together? We must. This week’s funeral of Officer Didarul Islam in New York City, where leaders honored his immigrant journey and anchoring cultural identities, place current global tensions, tariff wars, and political upheavals at the center of our efforts to compare ourselves to each other. We explore the state’s role in that process, and find in our study of the past in relation to the now new ways to build bonds of “nations within nations.” JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The weaponization of the judiciary, cultural institutions, and federal agencies threatens deeper fissures. As demographic shifts challenge already fragile power hierarchies in places like Texas, the backlash grows, manifesting in state repression and ideological crusades. This week, "In Class with Carr" looks to historical memory to remind us that Governance formations can and must be reimagined with a focus on relational citizenship rather than always deeply flawed racial state structures. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Cultural Meaning Making trope of Superman, especially as a trope used in US white nationalism, serves as a point of entry to consider power, collective identity and belief in the US Social Structure. In a moment in US and global history especially fraught with mass and social media manipulation, how can we leverage the momentum of memory to empower alternative visions of self-determination? Critical white nationalist reaction to the latest “Superman” movie reminds us of the US’s persistent need for savior figures, often racialized to uphold white nationalist ideologies. JOIN KNARRATIVE: https://www.knarrative.com it's the only way to get into #Knubia, where these classes are held live with a live chat. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Knarrative Twitter: https://twitter.com/knarrative_ Knarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knarrative/ In Class with Carr Twitter: https://twitter.com/inclasswithcarr See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.