Omg we are in a state of Emergency. I went to Howard University, I’m from Brooklyn & this RACIST sickness is happening all over our country. We must stand with our “Elder-Professor” & support the Black students @ Temple Un, with their mission for our people. These “Racial Traumatic Stress Injuries” are harming our health on a cellular level. By any means necessary we must stand & fight together ✊🏾🦋

That's why we must focus on our historically black colleges and universities which we control. But we must fight for African studies at all universities with African American students who want the programs

This is insane! How come a great scholar like Dr Asante be treated like that. This is beyond racism.

Revolution- by any means necessary- in the streets, in the boardrooms, and in the universities because racism is widespread, pervasive, and systemic! 🎯💯👊🏾❗️

What I Tell Ya !, Temple U. has always been an Apartheid University when it comes to African American Studys .

As a former student of this department I’m sadden to see this great department at odds with one another and with the University. Would love to be at any meetings going forward

Most graduates of this prestigious department, and HBCUs don't go or return to where they're needed the most (at the grassroot level of predominately black neighborhoods that are crying out for scholar warriors to assist in the guidance of building Afrocentric-Afrikan Centered Cultural Centers). Thus, if there is no Afrocentric Agency and Advocacy support at the grassroot level, White and black Eurocentrist will continue to dominate via arrogance, divide and conquering, and ongoing strategic planning to defeat Afrocentricity. Why? Because they know that "Afrocentricty Saves!."

This is horrific and I’m so sorry this is happening to everyone. Seriously WTH!!!

So disappointed by the fallout between Ama Mazama and MK Asante!

Informative.

Oh my...

Where is the Dream Team of AfriKan scholars Dyson, Gates and West and what has been their response?

13:53 " africa adds nothing to relationships with temple "

Like astrology and flat earth theory sooner or later all such studies run head long into actual science. When students don’t want time take these classes or major in these fields what is the university supposed to do? Keep paying professors for empty classrooms?

Michelle is always into something.😒😒

Remember Leon Dixon Jr. of W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center? Y'all need to patch things up create AFRICAN CENTER EDUCATION in all Communities of A.A. throughout USA. Dr. Neely Fuller told Y'all this will continue to happen.

There's a line in afrocentricity/pan africanism/black culture that I've found, which bothers me, and is alluded to by some of the experiences spoken of here. For some reason, people claim that same sex relations were and are an anathema to our ancestors and is an indication of something inexplicable, which was never practised in ancient times by our ancestors. I think this perspective is a result of a few things. Firstly, religious ideas perpetuated and reinforced by the abrahamic traditions and practices. Secondly, the unhinged eurocentric application of sexuality, regardless of stance. A memory and reputation which will last long after their empire has fallen, will be their outright absurdity and delusion around everything they claim they're so great at. As afrocentric people's, some hang on to ideas which have no basis in all encompassing realities of past, present and future, which in my opinion is not fully accepting who we are, where we came from and where we're going, ideologically speaking. If we covered the earth from the beginning, seeded numerous civilisations and are technically the most indigenous people on the face of the earth, then it isn't much of a leap to connect ourselves to every kind of human behaviour, from one extreme to the other and and everything in between. To all achievements, again applying the same principles. So how do we get to the point where any of us derides other people's sexual orientation and prevent another person's progress on that basis claiming it isn't afrocentric?! Yet polygamy, wife sharing, androgynous relationships and other kinds of relationships can be found on the African continent, presently and historically. We must decouple morality, religion, spirituality and sexuality from their current paradigms and relations to each other, because the evidence isn't there to support their presumed inter-relatedness. How has empire after empire, dynasty after dynasty, ruler after ruler, managed to claim and exert ascendancy and power, yet practice all kinds of alleged immorality, sexuality, spirituality and religious behaviour and still succeed in their adventures? From 2hat I've heard in this discussion, I feel that the strategy taken against the Africology department, is rooted upon this 'grey' yet highly emotive and charged area of division, to overturn the progress made thus far, and to discredit those scholars and students who wish to free themselves mentally from the final bastions where eurocentricity has it's strongholds and can find common grounds to work upon and recapture the minds of those freeing themselves unknowingly.

To misquote the eminent Scott Williams, "...they need the Tetractys..." Hotep!

I just need ONE QUESTION answered: "Why does those that HAVE THEIR OWN, schools, housing, companies, businesses, banks, money, laws, etc., NEVER scream racism?!"🤔

🤜🏿🤛🏾💪🏿👍🏾💯🤘🏿✊🏿✊🏾👍🏿👊🏿👊🏿🔥🔥💯

Chickens coming home to roost. Remember Dr. Anthony Monteiro?

Everything is racist right? The air, rocks, punctuation, poetry, baby chickens, sharks, carpentry, dust, copper wires, children's clothes, pencil's, dust, imagination, picture books, candy, animals, physics, etc etc etc right? Tired of this ETERNAL VICTIM Mentality.

The Afram dept has been under attack since yhe nineties. Back when William Bennett was Secretary of Education, white America sounded the alarm over multicultural education. Twmple University's contribution to that white pushback was called the "Intellectual Heritage Requirement" , mandatory coursework designed to reinforce the idea that Europe was the birthplace of scholarship and civilization itself.

If you want to learn about Africa and Caribbean Go to they countries and learn from they education system

Was San Francisco State University the first Black Studies program in the country ? I thought I saw a documentary showing the police and the governor Reagan deploying violent assaults on the students and faculty. And they even had a coalition of students of color(3rd world liberation front) , teacher and faculty strike that lasted for 1yr. I also think that’s where the first Asian American Studies department in the USA started too. The video was called “turning point San Francisco 1968 strike “. However, to get the real flavor see “San Francisco state on strike.(1968) it shows Blk students and leadership role more….Point being, blood was shed to get African/African American studies department in these universities- As well as other people of color ethnic studies departments.

Nah Feminista you couldn't be an ancestor...we see what this is all about....I support Dr Ama Mazama all the way

Why was an African chair to Black American studies. You made a comment that they people that had to deal with the police were not professional people. Only a foreigner/immigrant would make such a ridiculous ASSumption.

we not africans.. we been here

ADOS rises …………

First srep. Change name to FBA Studies if you want support.