A Brief History of The Moors

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Professor Kaba Kamene was born Booker T. Coleman Jr. on November 16th, 1953 in New York Hospital in New York City into a culturally conscious family. His mother was from Boston, Massachusetts and his father from Tuskegee, Alabama. In fact, his grandmother and the renowned educator Booker T. Washington were friends. Out of that friendship, she named her son, and Prof. Kamene’s father, Booker T. and he was named Booker T. Jr. after his father. Prof. Kamene’s parents were married in Booker T. Sr.’s church, A.M.E. Zion Church, by Pastor Benjamin Robeson, brother to the great Paul Robeson. Prof. Kamene said of his family: “The history of this culture was always within me. That’s where I learned the African American culture.” Prof. Kamene’s first glimpse into his Afrikan heritage came from his Puerto Rican neighbors. “My neighbors -Puerto Ricans- practiced Santeria, and after church I used to go to their home. That’s where I saw La Siete Potencias – The Seven Powers, the Orishas. I ain’t never seen no Black saints up on the wall of the Catholic Church I went to. They had those Catholic statues and pictures of Obatala, Yemoja, Oshun… and so I learned the Yoruba tradition of the Orishas through my Puerto Rican neighbors. I learned about Afrika through my Puerto Rican neighbors, but African American history from my family. So at a very young age I was brought up through the drum, the foods of the Caribbean, Puerto Rican spices, not the English spices. That was my evolution and then I met Professor Clarke when I was 12 ½.” He recalls his first meeting with the legendary, scholar and historian Dr. John Henrik Clarke: “Some ‘old heads’ – brothers who were a little bit older than us – would take us up to Harlem to experience certain things… and introduce us to different people. One of their events that we went to was a Professor John Henrik Clarke lecture where the young people sat in the front. At the end of the presentation, they brought us up to meet Professor Clarke and they introduced me by stating, “This is Booker T.” Professor Clarke responded, “Oh, Booker T., you’re going to be a great teacher one day!” That’s how my relationship with him started.” By the time Prof. Kamene had left the military, he began to work more closely with Professor Clarke doing research for him on subjects such as uncovering the role of the United States in the Berlin Conference which carved up the Afrikan continent for European domination. He discovered that the U.S. was indeed present; however they were without portfolio, meaning they remained silent (but did make sure Liberia was not taken due to the rubber trade). Under Dr. Clarke’s tutelage, Professor Kamene gleaned many valuable lessons as well as his life mission. “I realized the value of what he did for me and I in so many ways wanted to return the favor to him for what he did for me. When I was a young man he told me if he could give me anything, the one thing he would give me, if you could take everything away from me, the one thing he would give me is a sense of self-concept… a concept of self. That is what I try and do for our people, particularly our young people, a sense of self-concept… I began to develop this relationship about how I could best support our people and one of things was, of course, his recommendation that I write the curriculum. He said we need a curriculum. (He told me) ‘We’ll have principles, we’ll have people with money, we’ll have buildings… The one thing we don’t have is a curriculum. Focus on the development of a curriculum.’” The adoption of this mission has led Prof. Kamene to read and study voraciously as well as travel. His first trip to Kemet was in 1983 and on his 2nd trip in 1987 he remembered noticing the deep connection between our people separated by the Maafa. Professor Kamene graduated from New York University in 1977, with a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and with a minor in Caribbean Studies. He acquired his first Master degree in 1987 at Hunter College in New York City, majoring in history. He acquired his second Master’s degree in 1988, at City College in New York, with a major in Education Administration and Supervision. He worked in the New York City Board of Education for 31 years, retiring in 2009 and has devoted his life and energy toward the development of the Afrikan centered curriculum inspired in him by Dr. Clarke. Please Comment, Like and Share ❤️ If you would like to Support this channel please Donate ❤️ https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted;_button_id=PYJG39LLM7RLG

A Brief History of The Moors

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• published: 08 Jan 2016
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Professor Kaba Kamene was born Booker T. Coleman Jr. on November 16th, 1953 in New York Hospital in New York City into a culturally conscious family. His mother was from Boston, Massachusetts and his father from Tuskegee, Alabama. In fact, his grandmother and the renowned educator Booker T. Washington were friends. Out of that friendship, she named her son, and Prof. Kamene’s father, Booker T. and he was named Booker T. Jr. after his father. Prof. Kamene’s parents were married in Booker T. Sr.’s church, A.M.E. Zion Church, by Pastor Benjamin Robeson, brother to the great Paul Robeson. Prof. Kamene said of his family: “The history of this culture was always within me. That’s where I learned the African American culture.” Prof. Kamene’s first glimpse into his Afrikan heritage came from his Puerto Rican neighbors. “My neighbors -Puerto Ricans- practiced Santeria, and after church I used to go to their home. That’s where I saw La Siete Potencias – The Seven Powers, the Orishas. I ain’t never seen no Black saints up on the wall of the Catholic Church I went to. They had those Catholic statues and pictures of Obatala, Yemoja, Oshun… and so I learned the Yoruba tradition of the Orishas through my Puerto Rican neighbors. I learned about Afrika through my Puerto Rican neighbors, but African American history from my family. So at a very young age I was brought up through the drum, the foods of the Caribbean, Puerto Rican spices, not the English spices. That was my evolution and then I met Professor Clarke when I was 12 ½.” He recalls his first meeting with the legendary, scholar and historian Dr. John Henrik Clarke: “Some ‘old heads’ – brothers who were a little bit older than us – would take us up to Harlem to experience certain things… and introduce us to different people. One of their events that we went to was a Professor John Henrik Clarke lecture where the young people sat in the front. At the end of the presentation, they brought us up to meet Professor Clarke and they introduced me by stating, “This is Booker T.” Professor Clarke responded, “Oh, Booker T., you’re going to be a great teacher one day!” That’s how my relationship with him started.” By the time Prof. Kamene had left the military, he began to work more closely with Professor Clarke doing research for him on subjects such as uncovering the role of the United States in the Berlin Conference which carved up the Afrikan continent for European domination. He discovered that the U.S. was indeed present; however they were without portfolio, meaning they remained silent (but did make sure Liberia was not taken due to the rubber trade). Under Dr. Clarke’s tutelage, Professor Kamene gleaned many valuable lessons as well as his life mission. “I realized the value of what he did for me and I in so many ways wanted to return the favor to him for what he did for me. When I was a young man he told me if he could give me anything, the one thing he would give me, if you could take everything away from me, the one thing he would give me is a sense of self-concept… a concept of self. That is what I try and do for our people, particularly our young people, a sense of self-concept… I began to develop this relationship about how I could best support our people and one of things was, of course, his recommendation that I write the curriculum. He said we need a curriculum. (He told me) ‘We’ll have principles, we’ll have people with money, we’ll have buildings… The one thing we don’t have is a curriculum. Focus on the development of a curriculum.’” The adoption of this mission has led Prof. Kamene to read and study voraciously as well as travel. His first trip to Kemet was in 1983 and on his 2nd trip in 1987 he remembered noticing the deep connection between our people separated by the Maafa. Professor Kamene graduated from New York University in 1977, with a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and with a minor in Caribbean Studies. He acquired his first Master degree in 1987 at Hunter College in New York City, majoring in history. He acquired his second Master’s degree in 1988, at City College in New York, with a major in Education Administration and Supervision. He worked in the New York City Board of Education for 31 years, retiring in 2009 and has devoted his life and energy toward the development of the Afrikan centered curriculum inspired in him by Dr. Clarke. Please Comment, Like and Share ❤️ If you would like to Support this channel please Donate ❤️ https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted;_button_id=PYJG39LLM7RLG

A Brief History of The Moors

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• published: 08 Jan 2016
• views: 300581

Professor Kaba Kamene was born Booker T. Coleman Jr. on November 16th, 1953 in New York Hospital in New York City into a culturally conscious family. His mother was from Boston, Massachusetts and his father from Tuskegee, Alabama. In fact, his grandmother and the renowned educator Booker T. Washington were friends. Out of that friendship, she named her son, and Prof. Kamene’s father, Booker T. and he was named Booker T. Jr. after his father. Prof. Kamene’s parents were married in Booker T. Sr.’s church, A.M.E. Zion Church, by Pastor Benjamin Robeson, brother to the great Paul Robeson. Prof. Kamene said of his family: “The history of this culture was always within me. That’s where I learned the African American culture.” Prof. Kamene’s first glimpse into his Afrikan heritage came from his Puerto Rican neighbors. “My neighbors -Puerto Ricans- practiced Santeria, and after church I used to go to their home. That’s where I saw La Siete Potencias – The Seven Powers, the Orishas. I ain’t never seen no Black saints up on the wall of the Catholic Church I went to. They had those Catholic statues and pictures of Obatala, Yemoja, Oshun… and so I learned the Yoruba tradition of the Orishas through my Puerto Rican neighbors. I learned about Afrika through my Puerto Rican neighbors, but African American history from my family. So at a very young age I was brought up through the drum, the foods of the Caribbean, Puerto Rican spices, not the English spices. That was my evolution and then I met Professor Clarke when I was 12 ½.” He recalls his first meeting with the legendary, scholar and historian Dr. John Henrik Clarke: “Some ‘old heads’ – brothers who were a little bit older than us – would take us up to Harlem to experience certain things… and introduce us to different people. One of their events that we went to was a Professor John Henrik Clarke lecture where the young people sat in the front. At the end of the presentation, they brought us up to meet Professor Clarke and they introduced me by stating, “This is Booker T.” Professor Clarke responded, “Oh, Booker T., you’re going to be a great teacher one day!” That’s how my relationship with him started.” By the time Prof. Kamene had left the military, he began to work more closely with Professor Clarke doing research for him on subjects such as uncovering the role of the United States in the Berlin Conference which carved up the Afrikan continent for European domination. He discovered that the U.S. was indeed present; however they were without portfolio, meaning they remained silent (but did make sure Liberia was not taken due to the rubber trade). Under Dr. Clarke’s tutelage, Professor Kamene gleaned many valuable lessons as well as his life mission. “I realized the value of what he did for me and I in so many ways wanted to return the favor to him for what he did for me. When I was a young man he told me if he could give me anything, the one thing he would give me, if you could take everything away from me, the one thing he would give me is a sense of self-concept… a concept of self. That is what I try and do for our people, particularly our young people, a sense of self-concept… I began to develop this relationship about how I could best support our people and one of things was, of course, his recommendation that I write the curriculum. He said we need a curriculum. (He told me) ‘We’ll have principles, we’ll have people with money, we’ll have buildings… The one thing we don’t have is a curriculum. Focus on the development of a curriculum.’” The adoption of this mission has led Prof. Kamene to read and study voraciously as well as travel. His first trip to Kemet was in 1983 and on his 2nd trip in 1987 he remembered noticing the deep connection between our people separated by the Maafa. Professor Kamene graduated from New York University in 1977, with a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and with a minor in Caribbean Studies. He acquired his first Master degree in 1987 at Hunter College in New York City, majoring in history. He acquired his second Master’s degree in 1988, at City College in New York, with a major in Education Administration and Supervision. He worked in the New York City Board of Education for 31 years, retiring in 2009 and has devoted his life and energy toward the development of the Afrikan centered curriculum inspired in him by Dr. Clarke. Please Comment, Like and Share ❤️ If you would like to Support this channel please Donate ❤️ https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted;_button_id=PYJG39LLM7RLG