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As energy from the 2024 US federal elections continues to recede and US and global social structures fight to cover the inexorable shift of economic and political tumult with a distracting and numbing facade of normalcy, we turn to three subjects that should anchor how we plan for seizing the momentum of memory in 2025: Black Institutions, Black People and Black Possibilities.

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The enemies of our common humanity work hard to shape and distort memory for this reason, above all others. Remembering that we have defeated oppressive conditions, movements and moments when we come together in sufficient number is the first step to defeating them again and building the spaces and societies we want for ourselves and others. When we do this our way, we win.

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Election Day is here for most of the United States. Voting options are open across the country. Millions have already voted and millions more will vote before November 5th, the final day to vote. US Presidential candidates always fight over federal policymaking within and beyond the borders of the U.S. state, but the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has the potential to determine outsized changes in U.S. and global direction for at least the next generation. This week we undertake part two of our three-week consideration of what is at stake in the current US election. Why should we care and also get and remain involved and engaged in a political contest that will determine the role the U.S. state plays in the world? Who are most and least influential actors inside the borders of the most influential empire in global history? What is the role of “the vote” in helping people living in the U.S. to alter or disrupt plans of powerful state and non-state actors with plans for everything from addressing or ignoring climate change and nuclear brinkmanship to propping up expansionist settler colonial regimes and trying to minimize shifts in multipolar geopolitics? Third-party rhetoric aside, either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States: Depending on which one prevails, are we closer to the edge in human history? And what can we do about it before and after November 5?

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Election Day is here for most of the United States. Voting options are open across the country. Millions have already voted and millions more will vote before November 5th, the final day to vote. US Presidential candidates always fight over federal policymaking within and beyond the borders of the U.S. state, but the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has the potential to determine outsized changes in U.S. and global direction for at least the next generation. This week we undertake part two of our three-week consideration of what is at stake in the current US election. Why should we care and also get and remain involved and engaged in a political contest that will determine the role the U.S. state plays in the world? Who are most and least influential actors inside the borders of the most influential empire in global history? What is the role of “the vote” in helping people living in the U.S. to alter or disrupt plans of powerful state and non-state actors with plans for everything from addressing or ignoring climate change and nuclear brinkmanship to propping up expansionist settler colonial regimes and trying to minimize shifts in multipolar geopolitics? Third-party rhetoric aside, either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States: Depending on which one prevails, are we closer to the edge in human history? And what can we do about it before and after November 5?

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Election Day is here for most of the United States. Voting options are open across the country. Millions have already voted and millions more will vote before November 5th, the final day to vote. US Presidential candidates always fight over federal policymaking within and beyond the borders of the US state, but the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has the potential to determine outsized changes in US and global direction for at least the next generation. This week, as we finish our examination of Ta Nehisi Coates’ The Message, we begin a three week consideration of what is at stake in the current US election. Why should we care and also get and remain involved and engaged in a political contest that will determine the role the US state plays in the world? Who are most and least influential actors inside the borders of the most influential empire in global history? What is the role of “the vote” in helping people living in the US to alter or disrupt plans of powerful state and non-state actors with plans for everything from addressing or ignoring climate change and nuclear brinkmanship to propping up expansionist settler colonial regimes and trying to minimize shifts in multipolar geopolitics? Third party rhetoric aside, either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States: Depending on which one prevails, are we closer to the edge in human history? And what can we do about it before and after November 5?

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This week we continue our exploration of Ta Nehisi Coates’s book of essays, “The Message,” and reactions to it. As the US Presidential election approaches, we use themes evoked in the book as points of entry to ask how social structures mediate, shape and often dictate how we engage in governance dialogue and decision making, including what we believe is true and how we decide what is and isn’t important in our lives.

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What happens when justice is delayed? If for too long, or with too effective a prolong opposition, is it inevitable that it be permanently denied? If it is accurate that “politics is the art of the possible but art creates the possible of politics,” as Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in his book “The Message, what is the responsibility of the artist to imagine not only transforming positive social change but a world in which deep memory informs the future? And what happens when the artist commingles their own individual and group memory with that of others, creating a shared humanity that threatens to topple violences based on maintaining difference?

Those who use art to build stories and connect human beings to each other with shared insights, emotions and experiences work against powerful Social Structures designed to exploit, harm and control. What happens when stories that maintain oppressive hierarchies break down under the weight of other stories, delivered with powerful clarity by masters of craft, of common language? What happens when, in response, stagecraft and common language is used to build narratives that reinforce the harms?

“In Class” session number 239 draws from news of the death of non baseball Hall-of-Famer Peter Edward Rose to the whitelash defensive aftermath of the release of “the Message” to ask fundamental questions: Can justice, long delayed, be permanently denied? Deferred dreams be reduced to dead ones?

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The first “post-COVID” US presidential election is upon us. As most of the people in the world have endured national elections, it is the US’s turn in a year that has seen or will see the majority of the world’s people experience national elections, from Senegal to Sri Lanka, from Mexico to Mozambique, from India to the European Union. But the pandemic has receded and life cycles beset with perpetual spectacle are back in full effect. The distractions and serial stimuli are stronger than ever in a social structure that grows bloodier with each passing day. Can we pause long enough to ask ourselves how we renew our focus to act as swiftly as we did during the pandemic to intervene in the affairs of society?

In Session 34 of In Class, in the wake of the existential crisis triggered by the 2020 US election season, we examined “The Power of the Pause.” The “Summer of The Reckoning” was behind us, as was the 2020 elections, the political culmination of a once-in-a-lifetime convergence of disease, state violence and electoral politics. Now, poised on the brink of a match between the bloody politics of white nationalism and the pragmatic politics of blunting state violence, we must ask ourselves amid the nonstop noise: “can we recapture our imaginations from the frenetic pace of distraction and consumption and take decisive action?”

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The contemporary US and global Social Structure, like the formations that preceded it, shape mass opinion with words, frequently without proof of fact and increasingly it seems without sustained thinking. What happens when the word is given on a subject, a person, the meaning of an event or an era? What is a word? What is the word? What does the word of celebrity mean in fact, if anything? What does it signify? What does it say about the giver(s) and the audience(s)? What is the value and impact of mediation and Cultural Meaning-Making in today’s society, when stories–narratives–penetrate more deeply into Governance formations and deliberations than ever before? And at a moment when others using other words to feed narratives that fuel anti-social, fascist and oppressive objectives are poised to fuel a potentially disastrous scenario in the United States in a little over six weeks?

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