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Our logo is a "cylinder tangential to
a sphere. It is the only case where
the equality between the height of
a cylinder and the diameter of the
circle at the base, which is also that
of the inscribed sphere, is of
particular interest. This figure is the
one that Archimedes chose as an
epitaph, because as he said, it
represented his “most beautiful
discovery." Diop contended that
Archimedes had (somewhat in the
tradition of Christopher Columbus)
discovered; something that had
existed long before it was
discovered "an established
theorem discovered 2,000 years
before him by his [African]
predecessors."
-- from Cheikh Anta Diop's
Civilization or Barbarism: An
Authentic Anthropology.
(Translated from the French by Yaa-
Lengi Meema Ngemi, Edited by
Harold J. Salemson and Marjolijn
de Jager, Lawrence Hill Books,
1991, p.242. First published by
Presence Africaine, Paris, 1981).
The Black Think Tank was founded on
January 21, 1979, by individuals who had
been at the center of the late 1960s birth and
battle for black studies. The Black Think Tank
pioneered a Black Male/Female Relationships
movement, including "black love" (Kupenda
groups, Kupenda being Swahili for 'to love')
designed to help our people learn to love
again, to feel loved, to love ourselves and,
therefore, one another, inasmuch as we
already know how to hate one another. The
Black Think Tank then issued The Call and
was the catalyst for the contemporary Rites
of Passage movement for African-American
boys in the popular manual, Bringing the
Black Boys to Manhood: The Passage, which
promulgated lectures and workshops
nationally and internationally, including in
promulgated lectures and workshops
promulgated lectures and workshops
nationally and internationally, including in
nationally and internationally, including in
London and the Caribbean islands. Related
London and the Caribbean islands. Related
books of importance and influence followed
quickly: The Endangered Black Family and The
Miseducation of the Black Child. The Black
Think Tank is here by grim necessity and
popular demand. We, as a people, can see
clearly now that the old ideas have not
worked, and some that might have worked
have yet to be tried. Our leaders have argued
back and forth for decades lost forever over
the many good thoughts and corollaries of
Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, and W.
E.B. DuBois, but have never really
implemented either one of them.
We must continue to be receptive to the
insights and strategies of the anointed and
renowned among us, past and present, but
now is the time to penetrate and jump-start
the wisdom of the people, the unsung,
unseen and unheard, those Langston Hughes
once dubbed the "misbred, misread, and
misled." Thus, Langston anticipated the
words of his fellow alumnus of Pennsylvania's
Lincoln University, Kwame Nkrumah: "Go back
to the people; live with them, learn from
them, love them. “Start with what they know,
build on what they have, for the people may
be the best thing that you will ever have.”

This is where the Black Think Tank comes in,
dedicated to forging a facility to tap into and
foment the undying enthusiasm of our race to
think and grow free.
Studies in
Black Male Female
Relationships








This in from The CV Drum
“The monthly news beat and photo
album of African-American
communities in America

Drumbeat 1:  "Dr. Julia Hare’s
latest book
The Sexual and Political Anorexia
of the Black Woman: The Pain Guts
and Glory of the Black Woman
First Edition 2008
Black Think Tank Books
San Francisco

CLICK HERE TO GET IT NOW!

Drumbeat 2: "No disrespect to
stellar research synthesizers
withletters behind their names like
Cornel West, Ph.D., and Skip Gates,
Ph.D., reports the
Drum, "but my
money is also with those researchers
who can also “make it plain” for the
masses, in addition to “talking shop”
in the academy.  This skill is also
what made giants like Carter G.
Woodson, Dr. Carlton Goodlett and
Flo Kennedy,J.D. stand out and be
loved in many African com munities.
Dr.Julia Hare is from that mold.Rather
than pull from a few press releases.
That came across my desk in recent
months about Dr.Hare’s book, I am
briefly focusing exclusively on why
this book should be a must read for
those interested In transdisciplinary
and African-centered scholarship,
which are about re-empowering the
women warriors in our communities
(which also means re-empowering
the entire community)."
"Transdisciplinarity is about the
understanding of the present world,
which cannot be accomplished
in the framework of traditional
disciplinary research. Plain and
simple, add this excellent book to
your personal or professional
library." --
CV Drum
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        Something Old                       
         Something New

Seventeen lonely years after its
original publication, what appears
to be an emerging Black Think
Tank underground classic
(The
Miseducation of the Black Child)
is noted
a "bestseller" by Essence
magazine, along with such as
"
The Willie Lynch Letters" by
William Lynch and Kashif Malik
Hassan-el, "
Dreams From My
Father"
by Barack Obama, and
The Mis-Education of the Negro
by the late great
Carter G.
Woodson
.
Touted in the coveted paperback
nonfiction category,
The
Miseducation of the Black Child
competed
with books initially
published in hardback to make the
rounds of mainstream libraries
and media reviewers before
morphing into paperback on
"the
Great White Way
." By contrast
The Miseducation of the Black
Child
came  straight out of The
Black Think Tank, based on living
lessons learned by individuals
who have taught in the public
schools of the District of
Columbia, Chicago and San
Francisco, fueled by  clinical
observation as well as academic
and informal interaction with late
1960s college student activists,
community and street
intellectuals at Howard University
as well as the battlegrounds of
the strike for black studies at San
Francisco State, creatively applied
to overhauling the public schools
and educating every black man,
woman and child.