Haki Madhubuti, aka Don L. Lee, presents his book, Taught By Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected_Sankofa Video & Books Interview, INTRO Walk the Way of the New World: Haki R. Madhubuti & Nation

September 17, 2023June 3, 2024RBG Street Scholar Leave a comment

Updated June 1, 2024

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RBG| Walk the Way of the New World: Haki R. Madhubuti & Nation

In these new and selected poems Madhubuti, formerly Don L. Lee, poet, publisher, editor, and activist, places us in lyrical proximity to a legacy of women whose lives he honors with heart warm verses and timeless reverence. Each poem is a vivid portraiture of the “magnificent energy” emanating from a rainbow of Black women. In this mosaic collection of poetry, Madhubuti celebrates the luminous spirits of women whose visible ‘greatness’ has left an indelible mark on his life’s work. In Taught By Women, Madhubuti sings their struggles and praises with pitch perfect precision, every note— an empowering song and unforgettable melody. From Third World Press Foundation & Bookstore

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Amiri Baraka Double Consciousness Audio Lecture and Strivings of the Negro People by WEB Du Bois

September 16, 2023January 4, 2025RBG Street Scholar 2 Comments

“Double-consciousness is a concept in social philosophy referring, originally, to a source of inward “twoness” putatively experienced by African-Americans because of their racialized oppression and devaluation in a white-dominated society. The concept is associated with William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, who introduced the term into social thought in his groundbreaking The Souls of Black Folk (1903).” From the article below.

“Amiri Baraka, a BAM founder, wrote: We felt (and I still do feel) that Afro American people were and are still involved in a war. A war for Self Determination, Self Respect and Self Defense. It is a war for equal rights and democracy. But how can we press this struggle to victory if we suffer form a Double consciousness (Bracey et. al 17).” (From The Black Arts Movement’s Attack on W.E.B. Du Bois’ Theory of Double Consciousness by Tony Lindsay)

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SUPPLEMENTAL I: Strivings of the Negro People By W. E. B. Du Bois

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TheAtlantic · Strivings of the Negro People – The Atlantic – W.E. Burghardt Du Bois

SUPPLEMENTAL II: WEB Du Bois Criticizes Capitalism

W.E.B. DuBois Speaks! Socialism and the American Negro. The venerable W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), historian and activist, gives an address to the Wisconsin Socialist Club in Madison on socialism and the struggle of Black people in America. This speech was given on April 9, 1960 when DuBois was over 90 years of age and just months before his removal to Africa where he died Ghana on August 27, 1963 at the age of 95. In the speech Du Bois asserts that African Americans must learn the truth about socialism that they may “preserve their culture, get rid of poverty, ignorance and disease, and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of the free and the home of the brave.”