The Practice

• Commitment and consistency-- revolutionary discipline
• Spirit of love for the people
• Generosity and kindness
• Listening as much as talking
• Discovering and learning together rather than teaching
• Humility rather than professorial posture
• Flexibility in discussion
• Reading aloud
• Recordings for archives
• Quality and consistency over quantity; the process over success and failure
  
  

The Philosophy

• Viewing W.E.B. Du Bois as a thinker for the 21st century: he speaks to the crisis, the colour line and whiteness
• Pedagogy of the People, a pedagogy that puts working people and the poor first.
• Reading Du Bois in the fullness of his thought
• Collective knowledge creation
• W.E.B. Du Bois belongs to Humanity there the people must read Du Bois. 
• His writings connect to the conditions in Philadelphia 
• In Du Bois’ writings he combines poetics with the methods of social science and empirical research.
• Key concepts:
  • Black worker
  • World within a world
  • Double consciousness
  • The global colour line and the color line within the color line
  • Centrality of Africa to world history and American history
  • Civilizational framework, and the unity of pan Asia and pan Africa
  • The importance of emancipatory knowledge to the oppressed
  • The importance for the oppressed to both produce knowledge and to utilize knowledge for liberation.
  • Science and Art as means of creating knowledge and discovering the truth