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01/08/2025

Award-winning journalist Jonathan Tilove spent two years walking King streets from the East Coast to the West Coast. Tilove teamed up with East coast legendary photographer, Michael Falco capturing some timeless and intimate imagery of Black American culture.

As Dr. Madhubuti stated in his foreword, “If one wants to understand a people and their culture, one must travel into their interior.”

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01/07/2025

Last month, Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti was interviewed by middle school students of Betty Shabazz International Charter Schools about Chicago’s historical ties to Kwanzaa as well as his connection to Kwanzaa. The students and Dr. Madhubuti discussed the importance and power of Black people gathering, the future of Kwanzaa, and ways young people can take leadership roles in redefining or adapting Kwanzaa for a new generation while still honoring traditions.

Dr. Madhubuti tells the watoto (students), “One of the key aspects of self-determination is to build your own.”

11/25/2024

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10/30/2024

Celebrating the birthday of the founder of The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center - Dr. Margaret Burroughs!

Living In Her Legacy: Celebration of the Life and Activism of Dr. Margaret Burroughs. Film screening and discussion with special guest Professor Haki Madhubuti!

November 1, 2024 @ 6p.m.
The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
740 E. 56th Place, Chicago, IL 60637

Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs has a cemented a legacy as an educator, activist, and artist who leaves an indelible mark upon society for generations to come. Born in Louisiana, Dr. Burroughs' family moved to Chicago during the first Great Migration when she was a young girl. Growing up she became very active within the African American community. Heavily involved with Chicago’s Black Renaissance Movement during the thirties, she would go on to become one of the founders of Bronzeville’s Southside Community Arts Center in 1939. Partially funded by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, “New Deal” WPA (Work Projects Administration), First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt would attend the 1940 dedication ceremony of the center. In 1961, she would be the principal founder of one of the first Black History museums in the country, The Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art, in the living room of her house, also located on the Southside of Chicago. The museum would later become The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.

10/16/2024

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10/02/2024

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a capsule course in Black Poetry Writing
by Gwendolyn Brooks, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Haki R. Madhubuti, & Dudley Randall

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Poetry has been a wonderful tool to teach language and the fundamentals of reading. Most of us were introduced to it as young children. It was fun, colorful and always rhymed. Poetry was “roses are red and violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you”. In high school we learned that poetry is the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. We discovered Shakespeare, Shelly, Keats, Burns and Tennyson. Some of us got bored. As young adults, many of us discovered Black Poetry for the first time. Gwendolyn Brooks said “poetry is life distilled” and we related to her. We memorized “we real cool” and “a song in the front yard”. We loved poetry again and attempted to write it, but unfortunately not very well. In a capsule course in Black Poetry Writing four of our most outstanding poets give suggestions for writing interesting and meaningful poetry.

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09/26/2024

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MALCOLM X, THE CIA, AND OTHER BLACKS
by Herb Boyd & Don Rojas
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Like two intrepid leftist sleuths, Herb Boyd and Don Rojas take a deep dive into the files of the CIA, mainly inspired by Malcolm X's belief that he was under surveillance. They unearth and disclose enough evidence to confirm Malcolm's suspicion as well as to suggest, through circumstantial documentation, at least one agent stalking him. The book offers valuable insight into the history of government agencies spying on Black activists, and targeting Malcolm was just among the most notable of those in the CIA's crosshairs. Plummeting the depths of secrecy and intrigue of the CIA and Black radicals, Boyd and Rojas provide a promising blueprint and when, if ever, the agencies decide to declassify more documents on Malcolm, their work will be pivotal in the further pursuit of this ignominious truth.

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09/16/2024

Sonia Sanchez's 90th Birthday Celebration!
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Celebrating Sonia Sanchez at 90! Virtually join the family and friends of beloved poet, writer, teacher and mentor, Sonia Sanchez. Hosted by Joanne Gabbin, J...

09/16/2024

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08/20/2024

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Keeping Peace: Reflections On Life, Legacy, Commitment And Struggle
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08/17/2024

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08/08/2024

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BLACK, NOT HISTORICALLY BLACK:TOWARDS THE PAN BLACK COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY
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08/06/2024

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Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. Pointing to Lincoln's support for the fugitive slave laws, his friendship with slave-owning senator Henry Clay, and conversations in which he entertained the idea of deporting slaves in order to create an all-white nation, the book, concludes that the president was a racist at heart—and that the tragedies of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era were the legacy of his shallow moral vision.

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07/30/2024

VI.

if you don't know
who you are,
anybody can
name you.

-Haki R. Madhubuti
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07/30/2024

𝑻𝑾𝑬𝑵𝑻𝒀-𝑭𝑰𝑽𝑬
𝑴𝒂𝒚 26, 1950

By Patrick T. Reardon

"She smokes as she talks on the phone. I
know Gram is on the line. I don't know
how I know. Her words have a beat —
talk, not, talk, not, talk, not... There is a
line from her out of the flat. It must touch Gram. When she talks to me, there is no
beat. There is an edge to the words. There
is an itch to the sounds."

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07/30/2024

"When children stump toes,
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find hills too high to climb,
they cry
till parents dry their eyes."

-Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara)

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