Who is your favorite black intellectual?
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Man I'm conflicted. I want to be serious sooooo bad but ? already made a mockery of the thread.
Okay I'll be somewhat serious: Earl ofari Hutchinson is not my favorite but hes one of my favorites.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skjyPn4E53A
Bobby Hemmitt.
This ? breaks down our story line from the pharaohs to now.
This is a must see. -
Patrice O'neal (rest in power)
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Huey P
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marcus garvey was the only black intellectual i can follow, his philosophy was simple but complex
it had economic. political, social and spiritual components with an international reach no one since has been good enough to walk in his shadow.
my favorite living black intellectual is dr.umar and claude anderson -
TS or someone else should drop a list of living black intellectuals (and a brief description) to better direct the premise of the thread.
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Dr. Ben Carson for me.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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William_Poncho wrote: »W.E.B. Du BoisShiveDreadz wrote: »Huey PNeil Degrasse Tyson
Three of my favorites. -
Black Samson.
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William_Poncho wrote: »W.E.B. Du BoisShiveDreadz wrote: »Huey PNeil Degrasse Tyson
Three of my favorites.
mine too. But other than Tyson they way of thinking doesn't fit today as much as it should but thats no fault to them -
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Mike Tyson
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NothingButTheTruth wrote: »TS or someone else should drop a list of living black intellectuals (and a brief description) to better direct the premise of the thread.
Too many to name, much less describe their views.
But here is a list of some of the most prominent black intellectuals, past and present.
Fredrick Douglass
Martin Delany
Alexander Crummell
George Washington Williams
William Sanders Scarborough
W.E.B. DuBois
William Monroe Trotter
Archibald Grimké
Kelly Miller
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Anna Julia Cooper
Carter g. Woodson
Ida B. Wells
Hubert Harrison
Alain Locke
Paul Robeson
James Weldon Johnson
Marcus Garvey
Aimé Césaire
Charles S. Johnson
E. Franklin Frazier
Charles Hamilton Houston
St. Clair Drake
Frantz Fannon
Rayford logan
A. Philip Randolph
Langston Hughes
C.L.R. James
Oliver Cromwell ?
Howard Thurman
Ralph Bunche
J.A Rogers
Sterling Brown
Albert Murray
Stokely Carmichael
John Hope Franklin
C. Eric Lincoln
James Baldwin
Richard Wright
Audre Lorde
John Henrik Clarke
Chancellor Williams
Cheikh Anta Diop
June Jordan
Orlando Patterson
James Cone
Vincent Harding
Thomas Sowell
Patricia Williams
William Julius Wilson
Barbara Smith
Ivan van Sertima
Molefi Kete Asante
Derek Bell
bell hooks
Shelby Steele
Claude M. Steele
Elijah Anderson
Charles Ogletree
Houston Baker
Randall Kennedy
Michael Eric Dyson
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Paula Giddings
V.Y. Mudimbe
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
William A darity, Jr.
Stephen Carter
Gerald Early
Charles Mills
Patricia Hill Collins
Paul Gilroy
Nell Painter
Lani Guinier
Glenn Loury
Stuart Hall
Manning Marable
Adolph Reed
Robin D.G. Kelly
Lewis Gordon
Mark Anthony Neal
Eddie Glaude
Danielle Allen
Imani Perry
J. Kameron Carter
Melissa Harris-Perry
Marc Lamont Hill
OK, let me stop now.
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I mess with Marc Lamont Hill and MHP..
Henry Louis Gates cause of his documentaries and Degrassi Tyson cause of
his vast knowledge on the cosmos... oh and Tariq Nasheed ...lol..
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4 LOLS but Im not joking .King Didier
Im not really into orators. I like intellectuals , who spit game with action.
I consider Muhammad Ali ,Jim Brown ,Bill Russell sports intellectuals.
Guys who stepped out their comfort zones, when they didnt have to, but they did.
Didier Drogba is in that class. In his prime he used his influence to make change, in not only aspire his country, but a continent.
Getting involved in polítics/ war in a 3rd world country, is a death sentence. And he didnt have to, cause he wasnt raised there.But he did.
This guy is a rare one. Thats why I was pulling for him, in this world cup. If anybody deserves to bring the first world cup to Africa, it would of been him. -
Mr. Neely Fuller, Jr., 74 years of age, was born on October 6, 1929 at the height of the Great Depression. He served in two branches of the Armed Forces. He served in the Army during the Korean War Conflict for his first term. For his second term, he served in the Air force during the Little Rock 9 era where 9 black youths went to an all white high school during desegregation. During this time, he wrote the first six pages of his book called The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept: a textbook, workbook, for Victims of White Supremacy. He carried these six pages around for years. Expanding the book as situations presented themselves; the book eventually grew from six pages to 1,300 pages. These pages were kept in a suitcase. When he left the military in 1984, he organized the pages into a more comprehensive form by placing them in note binders. He is currently expanding this book according to our modern-day use of words.
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Neil Degrasse-Tyson or ? Gregory.
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Michael Eric Dyson
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Michelle Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. She served for several years as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, which spearheaded a national campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement. Alexander directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School and was a law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun at the U. S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. As an associate at Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, she specialized in plaintiff-side class action suits alleging race and gender discrimination.[2]
Alexander now holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State.[2]
Alexander has litigated numerous class action discrimination cases and worked on criminal justice reform issues. She is a recipient of a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship of the Open Society Institute.
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Dr. Umar Abdullah-Johnson is a Certified School Psychologist who practices privately throughout Pennsylvania and lectures throughout the country. Umar is a blood relative of Frederick Douglass, the great Black abolitionist and orator. As a school psychologist Umar evaluates children ages 3-21 in an effort to determine if they have educational disabilities and a need for special education services. Umar is considered a national expert on learning disabilities and their effect on Black children, as well an expert on helping schools and parents modify challenging behaviors that can ultimately lead to disruptive behavior disorder diagnoses in Black boys.
