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We Been Knew Episode 8

Feeling excited about what I was learning so far in reading Yurugu: An Afrikan-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani, I…

We Been Knew Episode 7

I read Chapter 1 and the start of Chapter 2 of Yurugu: An Afrikan-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought & Behavior by Marimba Ani this weekend, after…

We Been Knew Episode 6

Last week, Dr. Na'im Akbar gave us the forensics of what was installed. This week, he names what was supposed to be there instead. In the Introduction, Know…

We Been Knew Episode 5

Na’im Akbar, Ph.D. opens Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery with work as a forensic entry point. And from the first pages, I kept having to stop…

We Been Knew Episode 4

In 1933, Carter G. Woodson finished writing The Miseducation of the Negro and called for something specific. Not reform of the existing educational structure.…

We Been Knew Episode 3

In Carter G. Woodson’s time, 3 generations after Emancipation, leaders who shaped educational policy for this nation did not accidentally forget to teach us…

We Been Knew Episode 2

There’s a difference between being educated and being trained to submit. This week, I’m sitting with what it means to be formed inside institutions that never…

We Been Knew Episode 1

Welcome to the first official reading reflection in We Been Knew . As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, I began with The Mis-Education…

A presentation about what happens when “niceness” replaces integrity, what it costs us and what we can do to move forward with agency.

For years I’ve watched organizations applaud civility while avoiding the deeper questions: Whose comfort does this civility protect? What truths get silenced…

Trying something different. I don’t know about you, but when I’m focused, I’m LASER focused. ESPECIALLY when the focus is aligned. What’s something that you’re…