An Afrocentric History of America with Michael Taylor
Take part in Michael Taylor’s culturally relevant, interactive lectures based on Historian Dr. John Henrik Clarke’s documentary film, A Great and Mighty Walk. (The film invites viewers to take their own inward-looking journey - to an ancient Africa forgotten by history, and also traces African influence to modern times and shows how the ancient ideas have endured.) View the film on YouTube.
In this series of three, hour-long presentations, Taylor will spend the first 30 minutes reviewing the documentary (the 90-minute documentary will be divided into three, 30-minute segments to correlate with his presentations) and then offer remarks and engage in discussion.
Wednesdays, February 12, 19, and 26 at 2–3 p.m. on Zoom (meeting ID: 939 5784 8681)
Don’t miss out on this AME hosted series offering reflections on Clarke’s account of Black American history and culturally relevant applications of Afrocentric concepts.
Michael Taylor Bio
Michael Taylor is a lifelong problem solver who has served as a secondary and collegiate level mathematics teacher, a secondary school leader and an entrepreneur.
As an undergraduate and graduate student at Columbia University, Michael continued to explore ideas he was. exposed to as a high school student in Harlem. He noted that modern first world powers touted their economic dominance as a direct result of superior genetic heritage. Michael could not accept this premise, and through diligent research and study, he found a more accurate re-telling of history that countered this narrative. He concluded that the wealth and development of the modern world were not a result of superior genetic heritage, enlightenment, or decision making.
Taylor sees how much of formal education is derived from selective storytelling and the purposeful omissions of facts. Today, Michael offers information and experiences to help others constitute a worldview that counters a traditional narrative of Eurocentric cultural, intellectual, and economic dominance.