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Dr. John Henrik Clarke founded and led several organizations that shaped and defined the Black Studies Movement of the 1960s. Dr. Clarke was an advisor to Kwame Nkrumah and Malcolm X – whose leadership inspired millions worldwide. He taught thousands of students in classrooms at Hunter College and around the world.
Dr. Clarke was a founding member of the African Heritage Studies Association and the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization. Although he transitioned in 1998, Dr. Clarke’s spirit lives on through the works of those he inspired.
One of the most important lessons Dr. Clarke stressed is that the history of African Americans did not begin in slavery. Thanks to the teachings of Dr. Clarke, we know that: if the history of African people were a book of 1000 pages, the story of enslavement would begin on page 996 – and would only be two pages long.
With this as its guiding principle, the John Henrik Clarke Enhanced History Project was curated to tell the story of the first 995 pages of African and African American History. Join Anthony Browder as he shares details of the opening of the Clarke Enhanced History Project.
About the speaker
Anthony T. Browder is an author, publisher, cultural historian, artist, and an educational consultant. He is a graduate of Howard University’s College of Fine Arts and has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Africa, Caribbean, Mexico, Japan and Europe, on issues related to African and African American History and Culture.
Mr. Browder is the founder and director of IKG Cultural Resources and has devoted 30 years researching ancient Egyptian history, science, philosophy and culture.
He has traveled to Egypt 54 times since 1980 and is currently director of the ASA Restoration Project, which is funding the excavation and restoration of the 25th dynasty tomb of Karakhamun in Luxor, Egypt.
Browder is the first African American to fund and coordinate an archeological dig in Egypt and has conducted 23 archeological missions to Egypt since 2009.
Mr. Browder’s three decades of study have led him to the conclusion that ancient Africans were the architects of civilization and developed the rudiments of what has become the scientific, religious, and philosophical backbone of mankind. It is from this framework that IKG has concentrated its research and disseminated its findings.
Through IKG, Mr. Browder sponsors lectures, seminars, cultural field trips of Washington, D.C., publishes his research, and has conducted study tours to Egypt, West Africa, South Africa and Mexico since 1987.
He is the author of six publications (including the best sellers, From the Browder File and Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization) and the co-author of six publications, including two written with his daughter, Atlantis Tye.
All of Mr. Browder’s publications are currently being used in classrooms around the world. “Tony” is an autodidact and describes himself a chronicler of facts and information relative to the positive portrayal of the worldwide African experience.
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