by professor kenyatta | May 23, 2026 | Hidden Scholars, African American Studies, African History
They never put him in your textbook. That wasn’t an accident. The Man Whom Schools Pretended Didn’t Exist Let me ask you something. When you were sitting in your high school history class learning about “the cradle of civilization,” did your...
by professor kenyatta | Feb 1, 2022 | Racism
C. Wright slowly turned his headand his gazeaway from me for a moment. It appeared as if he was going to give me a break. But when he looked back at me, with the stare of an assassin, I knew it wasn’t a reprieve. He wasn’t letting me off the hook. He was about...
by professor kenyatta | Jan 25, 2022 | Racism
“You know it was an illusion. And you know why you know that my friend?” he asked, more as a statement rather than a question. “You know it because you remember it.” “I remember it?” I asked, with half my mind in the room listening to what he was saying, while the...
by professor kenyatta | Jan 18, 2022 | Racism
“Well,” he said, still in a confident mood, “it’s very simple. Racism is nothing more than the belief held by white people that they are superior to people who are not white.” “Come again,” I said, not believing what I thought I heard him say. “It’s not that...
