July Liberal Values Lab: Growing up a Black Nationalist with Michael DC Bowen
Michael David Cobb Bowen was raised in Southern California where his father founded the Institute for Black Studies in 1966. Robert T. Bowen was one of the original Watts Poets and advocated for a separate black nation. Michael's uncle also worked for the Peace Corps in West Africa, so Michael learned how to speak French and Swahili as a child. He participated in the first Kwanzaa and was taught that he would be a model for the new Black Man. He talks about what it was like to grow up with that mindset and frame of reference and how he evolved his thinking about black identity and American citizenship.
http://www.mdcbowen.info/
https://mdcbowen.substack.com/
https://freeblackthought.substack.com/
You can also follow Michael on X and IG @mdcbowen
