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Black Heritage Network seeks "to inform and entertain all Americans with the inspirational people, singular stories, and soaring sagas of our nation’s Black Heritage while presenting the people and events of today as they lay the groundwork for tomorrow’s Black Heritage."
Black Heritage is basically what Black people have accomplished that is worthy of note and admiration. Black Studies is a critical study of that heritage. Black Heritage and Black Studies go hand in hand. "Heritage" implies what of value can be mined from history. What can we learn from the past and the present; therefore, one cannot merely relate stories of Black accomplishment without thoroughly understanding it. In this blog, I will make an attempt to be not only informative, but critical (in a positive sense) of Black Heritage. This means trying to explicate the meaning Black Heritage.
As a discipline, a specialized branch of study and knowledge, Black Studies is a critical and systematic study of the thought and practice of African people in their current and historical unfolding....
Black Studies ... began as both a political and academic demand with grounding in both the general student movement and social struggles of the 60's out of which the Student Movement evolved. The 60's was a time for upheaval and confrontations, and students--Africans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Whites-- were at the center of the struggle which produced this process. Beginning first off campus in the struggle against the racist structure and functioning of society, students began to see the university as a key institution in the larger system of coercive institutions created by the established order to maintain its power."
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