History Speaks pt.5- "Know Thy Self"

Black culture is American culture, and Black stories are essential to the ongoing story of America — our faults, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations. Shining a light on Black history today is as important to understanding ourselves and growing stronger as a Nation as it has ever been. Tonight, I talk with Dr. Bridge Bridges .

Recapturing the African Mind represents a labor of love by Dr. Bridge Bridges as the proprietor of the Know Book Store, a local national and international lecture, and speaker, a college professor, author and host of radio talk shows, “Talk Harambee” and “The Cultural Awareness Seminar”, Bridges has had the unique opportunity to teach and to learn from continental Africans and Africans dispersed throughout the Diaspora.

Over the years, his interactions with persons of African decent from all walks of life - the degreed and the un-degreed, the affluent and the impoverished, the conscious and the unconscious- led to his inescapable and often quoted conclusion “we are out of our African minds!”