With support from our spectrum cable partners, this begins traveling to chapel hill, North Carolina. Coming up in the next 90 minutes, will learn about the citys Literary History and speak with local authors including jake smith on his book cheated. Then in about ten minutes, we sit down with the citys first africanamerican mayor, howard lee. Following that in about 30 minutes, subpoenaing president nixon during the watergate hearings. We begin our special feature with the academic scandal that involved the Athletic Program. [applause] four seconds to play. I would say sports are very important. In that respect, youre like probably other universities but maybe a little more so because weve had such Great Success in theres an ingrained tradition of winning and competing in lots of different sports. Its an important part of the culture. For many years, weve all involved in the myth of being the tarragon of virtue and the master of joining athletic rights. I think we all convinced ourselv
So, today we are going to be of course, revealing and discussing section that really talks about malcolms views, malcolm x is views on africa and even the middle east. Of course, we read a few of the letters that he sent home when he was traveling in 1959, as well as in 1964 in africa, as well as in the middle east. We will also talk about some speeches that he made, won in 1959, and another in 1965 before he was killed, that really sort of talked about his views on africa. And a critical interview that he gave when he attended the organizational, organization of African Unity conference in late july of 1964, in which he sort of discussed his strategy and the reason why he came to that conference and was appealing to these african heads of state. Hopefully everyone has read and listened to these speeches. So we can really get a sense of malcolm x viewpoints on africa. I think in order for us to really understand why malcolm expressed some of the things he did in these letters, in many
Middle east, and of course we read a few of the letters that he sent home when he was traveling in 1959 as well as in 1964, in africa as well as the middle east, as well as a few speeches that he made. In 1965959 and another before he was killed, that really talked about his thenoints on africa, and also a very critical interview attendedave when he the organizational the organization of African Unity late july of 1964, in which he sort of discussed his strategy and the reason why he came to that conference and was appealing to these african heads of state. Hopefully everyone has read and listened to these speeches. For us to understand why malcolm did what he did in these letters, because we see he is arguing against particular ideas within the black community that were widespread in africa. It is critical for us to have a very good Vantage Point to understand how americans, and specifically black americans were thinking about africa in the late 1950s, early 1960s. Before we talk abou
Here to join in this discussion. The examination of the life of brigadier Charles Young i titled the paper or this lecture a destiny deferred because often times when you read about or if you just do a Google Search and at and examining charles life his best friend is often quoted his best friend w. E. B. Dubois and. Dubois defined youngs life as a triumph tragedy and a big part of the research. And my goal as a scholar is changing narratives. And so this is what were going to discuss this evening. Looking at this destiny of one of the finest black officers to serve, according to many of the of his followers from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. So its surprisingly, Charles Young was a humanities, you know, they i keep reading articles all the about how the the humanities are dying. Oh my god what are we going to do with this . But Charles Young at the academy he excelled in the and actually was terrible math in fact he failed math i had to get tutor help to do it but
Brigadier Charles Young i titled the paper or this lecture a destiny deferred because often times when you read about or if you just do a Google Search and at and examining charles life his best friend is often quoted his best friend w. E. B. Dubois and. Dubois defined youngs life as a triumph tragedy and a big part of the research. And my goal as a scholar is changing narratives. And so this is what were going to discuss this evening. Looking at this destiny of one of the finest black officers to serve, according to many of the of his followers from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. So its surprisingly, Charles Young was a humanities, you know, they i keep reading articles all the about how the the humanities are dying. Oh my god what are we going to do with this . But Charles Young at the academy he excelled in the and actually was terrible math in fact he failed math i had to get tutor help to do it but. He was a polyglot. He spoke german fluently. French and spanis