Introduction
This course is for building African American World Leaders. It will showcase leading political views of the African diaspora past and present from an American point of view. Then it hightlight the successes, failures, and lessons learned from them. At the end a distillation of strongest strategies will be presented that rejects inherent miscalculations of previous leadership. Only Strongest Moves - No Compromise.
Key Topics
- Reparations
- White Supremacy
- Black Betrayal
- Classical, Liberal, Capitalist, and Postmodern Theories
- Applications in Revolutionary and Colonial Contexts
- The failures and successes of cointel pro-esque subversive groups and African American agents who serve them
- Official Malone Doctrine as a sovereign institution and its non-alignment to anti-black collaborators
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the origins and evolution of black political thought
- Analyze systems of power from a critical, strategic perspective
- Apply political theory to contemporary and historical scenarios
- Challenge mainstream paradigms with rigorous logic and evidence
Format
This is a self-paced online course. Videos, readings, and discussion prompts are provided. No prior coursework required. Instructor guidance is optional via scholarship or paid enrollment.
Units
These unit links organize Black political thought into structured study paths that represent official political positions of the African American demographic. Units move from historical foundations to political ideas, leadership, grievance, independence, and modern civic argument.
Introduction to Black Political Thought
An introductory unit on major questions, traditions, leaders, documents, and debates in Black political life.
Slavery, Citizenship, and the State
A unit on slavery, law, citizenship, state power, civil status, and the political consequences of bondage and emancipation.
Black Leadership and Political Movements
A study of leaders, organizations, speeches, movements, and strategies used to pursue rights, power, justice, and self-determination.
Grievance, Repair, and Political Justice
A unit on historical grievance, public complaint, reparative justice, institutional responsibility, and political demands for remedy.
Black Nationalism and Self-Determination
A unit on political independence, sovereignty arguments, nationalism, separatism, community control, and self-definition.
Black Political Theory and Modern Democracy
An advanced unit on democracy, constitutionalism, race, citizenship, protest, public memory, political identity, and civic power.
Essays & Documents
These essays and documents support independent reading, political analysis, and source-based study. They may include interpretive essays, historical summaries, declarations, arguments, and issue-focused pages.
Political Traditions
An overview of major traditions in Black political argument, public identity, citizenship, justice, and political power.
Leaders
Essays on major leaders, organizations, speeches, and movement traditions in Black political history.
Transatlantic Slavery
Historical essays on slave trade systems, law, economics, memory, resistance, and political consequences.
Grievances
Essays on historical injuries, civic complaints, political claims, institutional responsibility, and demands for remedy.
Declaration of Black Independence
A declaration-style political document focused on self-definition, historical grievance, public argument, and political independence.
Acts of War
A source-based political analysis of conflict language, historical grievance, sovereignty claims, resistance arguments, and public accountability.