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Our logo is a "cylinder tangential to a sphere. It is the only case where the equality between the height of a cylinder and the diameter of the circle at the base, which is also that of the inscribed sphere, is of particular interest. This figure is the one that Archimedes chose as an epitaph, because as he said, it represented his “most beautiful discovery." Diop contended that Archimedes had (somewhat in the tradition of Christopher Columbus) discovered; something that had existed long before it was discovered "an established theorem discovered 2,000 years before him by his [African] predecessors."
-- from Cheikh Anta Diop's Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology. (Translated from the French by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi, Edited by Harold J. Salemson and Marjolijn de Jager, Lawrence Hill Books, 1991, p.242. First published by Presence Africaine, Paris, 1981).
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The Black Think Tank was founded on January 21, 1979, by individuals who had been at the center of the late 1960s birth and battle for black studies. The Black Think Tank pioneered a Black Male/Female Relationships movement, including "black love" (Kupenda groups, Kupenda being Swahili for 'to love') designed to help our people learn to love again, to feel loved, to love ourselves and, therefore, one another, inasmuch as we already know how to hate one another. The Black Think Tank then issued The Call and was the catalyst for the contemporary Rites of Passage movement for African-American boys in the popular manual, Bringing the Black Boys to Manhood: The Passage, which promulgated lectures and workshops nationally and internationally, including in London and the Caribbean islands. Related books of importance and influence followed quickly: The Endangered Black Family and The Miseducation of the Black Child. The Black Think Tank is here by grim necessity and popular demand. We, as a people, can see clearly now that the old ideas have not worked, and some that might have worked have yet to be tried. Our leaders have argued back and forth for decades lost forever over the many good thoughts and corollaries of Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. DuBois, but have never really implemented either one of them.
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Think About It!
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"If you can control a man's thinking, you don't have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks, you do not have to worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don't have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don't have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one."`
-- Carter G. Woodson
The Miseducation of the Negro, 1933
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We must continue to be receptive to the insights and strategies of the anointed and renowned among us, past and present, but now is the time to penetrate and jump-start the wisdom of the people, the unsung, unseen and unheard, those Langston Hughes once dubbed the "misbred, misread, and misled." Thus, Langston anticipated the words of his fellow alumnus of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Kwame Nkrumah: "Go back to the people; live with them, learn from them, love them. “Start with what they know, build on what they have, for the people may be the best thing that you will ever have.”
This is where the Black Think Tank comes in, dedicated to forging a facility to tap into and foment the undying enthusiasm of our race to think and grow free.
Join with us!
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