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| The Black Think Tank was co-founded by Drs. Nathan and Julia Hare in 1979 to promote a movement for better black male/female relationships but quickly took on other matters: the miseducation of the black child, spearheading a rites of passage movement for black boys, overhauling the public schools, and educating every black man, woman and child. Dr. Nathan Hare was founding publisher of The Black Scholar : A Journal of Black Studies and Research, from 1969 to 1975, following his firing for his participation in the five-months strike for the first department of black studies (at San Francisco State) in 1968 and 1969. Dr. Julia Hare, was founding publisher of Black Male/Female Relationships from 1979 to 1982. This followed her experiences as a prizewinning public school teacher and radio talk show host and television personality. Dr. Julia Hare has recently been selected to the Marquis Who's Who in America, for 2010; also Who's Who in the World. She joins Dr. Nathan Hare, whose biographies first appeared in 1976 and 1977, respectively. Both Hares have also been included in Who's Who Among Black Americans. |
| The Kupenda "Black Love Group" with a picture of the cover of the first issue of Black Male/Female Relationships, the journal of a late 1970s movement from an article. “A New Black Struggle,” announcing the launching of the now defunct journal of Black Male/Female Relationships, “A New Black Struggle,” Newsweek, August 27, 1979, p. 58. This article followed by several years the publication of a popular "Speaking Out" editorial by Dr. Nathan Hare, “For a Better Black Family”, in the February (1976) issue of Ebony magazine. |
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE FIRST ISSUE AND COPIES
OF FIRST AND SECOND ISSUES OF THE BLACK SCHOLAR
OF FIRST AND SECOND ISSUES OF THE BLACK SCHOLAR
JANUARY 21, 1979
It was an age of black intellectual focus on asserting the “strengths of the black family” and denying
“pathology” in the face of the family and social decay exploding upon our people. Speaking out in
Ebony, we cried that “our confusion, our negligence, in this area is both curious and shocking,
because the relations between male and female are the most intimate and basic of all human
entanglements and the most crucial for the subjugation of a people.“
“….We propose that we begin to establish black love groups (psychological workshops group
therapy) to begin to elevate black love groups to the status of a social movement. In this way we
may begin to iron out our differences and our difficulties and perhaps to arrive ultimately at a
workable solution.”
The interest was great, but without a movement organization, the black male/female schism and
the displaced power struggle between the black male and black female soon were complicated and
sidetracked by the inability of the white-dominated feminist movement then raging to answer the
critical questions it had raised for the idea of black female liberation, compounded moreover by the
black male-dominated black consciousness movement’s inability to incorporate black women’s
liberation as an integral part of the black movement beyond simplistic and counterproductive
mimicry. The black male/female relationship movement was also quickly trivialized by the mainstream
publishing industry and related hip hop. It is no wonder that black males and female are finding it
increasingly hard to get along together.
But now that we know, now that the dust has settled, we must return to the unfinished revolution
that is tied so inextricably to the resurrection of the black family and the reclamation of the inherent
and indigenous right and ability to rear our children, to reconstruct the core of their personalities
and socialize them to become what we want them to be for the leadership and future of a proud
and glorious people.
It is said it takes a village to raise a child, but in the process we will find it take a revolution to raise
an autonomous village whose children are young, black, gifted and free.
It was an age of black intellectual focus on asserting the “strengths of the black family” and denying
“pathology” in the face of the family and social decay exploding upon our people. Speaking out in
Ebony, we cried that “our confusion, our negligence, in this area is both curious and shocking,
because the relations between male and female are the most intimate and basic of all human
entanglements and the most crucial for the subjugation of a people.“
“….We propose that we begin to establish black love groups (psychological workshops group
therapy) to begin to elevate black love groups to the status of a social movement. In this way we
may begin to iron out our differences and our difficulties and perhaps to arrive ultimately at a
workable solution.”
The interest was great, but without a movement organization, the black male/female schism and
the displaced power struggle between the black male and black female soon were complicated and
sidetracked by the inability of the white-dominated feminist movement then raging to answer the
critical questions it had raised for the idea of black female liberation, compounded moreover by the
black male-dominated black consciousness movement’s inability to incorporate black women’s
liberation as an integral part of the black movement beyond simplistic and counterproductive
mimicry. The black male/female relationship movement was also quickly trivialized by the mainstream
publishing industry and related hip hop. It is no wonder that black males and female are finding it
increasingly hard to get along together.
But now that we know, now that the dust has settled, we must return to the unfinished revolution
that is tied so inextricably to the resurrection of the black family and the reclamation of the inherent
and indigenous right and ability to rear our children, to reconstruct the core of their personalities
and socialize them to become what we want them to be for the leadership and future of a proud
and glorious people.
It is said it takes a village to raise a child, but in the process we will find it take a revolution to raise
an autonomous village whose children are young, black, gifted and free.
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