GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Professor John Henrik Clarke, Pioneer of Pan African Studies (LISTEN)

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Here is GBN’s Daily Drop for Friday, February 4th on John Henrik Clarke, professor and advocate of Pan African Studies.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of GoodBlackNews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Friday, February 4th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

From his early Bible classes, observant Sunday school student John Henrik Clarke noticed something: Though many of the stories took place in Africa, no African people were included in the illustrated lessons.

This early disappointment led him to become a history professor at Cornell University and a pioneer and forceful advocate for Pan African Studies in colleges. Clarke’s writings and lesson plans were so thorough, the Schomburg Center in Harlem asked him for copies, which reside in their permanent collection to this day. In 1985, Cornell University opened the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.

Some of Clarke’s noted works include Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism, a collection of Clarke’s speeches titled New Dimensions in African History, his editing and contributing to William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond, and his editing of the 1991 collection of Malcolm X’s writings and speeches called Malcolm X: Man and His Times.

Links to these sources and others about Clarke are provided in today’s show notes.

• https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/CLARKEJH.pdf
• https://africana.library.cornell.edu/
• https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/john-henrik-clarke-born/

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