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

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“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.”

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Historic Excavations_ Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan on Like It Is with Gil Noble and Notes For An African World Revolution_Dr. John Henrik Clarke

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Like It Is with Gil Noble|El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) Biography_A Documentary Film, FBI Surveillance of Malcolm X, and Malcolm X: The FBI File (2012) by Clayborne Carson, David Gallen (Editor), Spike Lee (Introduction)

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Gil Noble became the host and producer of “Like It Is” at New York’s ABC affiliate in 1975 (Gil’s Story in his own words). Over a period of 36 years he interviewed hundreds of guests. Every Sunday his shows focused primarily on the struggle and movement of Afrikan peoples for national liberation and self-determination throughout the diaspora. He won seven Emmy awards for the following documentaries: “El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)” (featured herein) ,”Paul Robeson,” “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Adam Clayton Powell Jr.,” “Decade of Struggle,” “Essay on Drugs” Learn more in RBG Communiversity eLibrary | Like It Is with Gil Noble Folder

El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) Biography_A Documentary Film

FBI Surveillance of Malcolm X

Malcolm X: The FBI File

The FBI has made possible a reassembling of the history of Malcolm X that goes beyond any previous research. From the opening of his file in March of 1953 to his assassination in 1965, the story of Malcolm X’s political life is a gripping one.
Shortly after he was released from a Boston prison in 1953, the FBI watched every move Malcolm X made. Their files on him totaled more than 3,600 pages, covering every facet of his life. Viewing the file as a source of information about the ideological development and political significance of Malcolm X, historian Clayborne Carson examines Malcolm’s relationship to other African-American leaders and institutions in order to define more clearly Malcolm’s place in modern history.
With its sobering scrutiny of the FBI and the national policing strategies of the 1950s and 1960s, Malcolm X: The FBI File is one of a kind: never before has there been so much material on the assassination of Malcolm X in one conclusive volume.

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