Posts tagged: James Early

Early traces this erasure from Amiri Baraka's writing on Black identity to African-derived surnames still found in Colombia, and connects it to a resurgent, racialized nationalism in the U.S. today, including recent remarks from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He also reflects on how the names passed down by his own family carried his elders' deliberately chosen memories, and how embracing that inheritance became the true source of his identity and strength.

Why We Need to Stop Saying Our African Ancestors Were All Kings and Queens

2026-09-08

by Taron Butler with No Comment I Never Knew TV Interviews

In Pt.1 of this powerful reasoning, James Early explains why the popular claim that Black people descend from African kings and queens is itself a kind of erasure, one that flattens who Africans actually were. According to Early, the deeper struggle is r ...

Posts tagged: James Early

Why We Need to Stop Saying Our African Ancestors Were All Kings and Queens

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