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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard...

“To know Dr. Hilliard was in some respects to know Africa.” Asa Hilliard, III was a world renowned Pan-Africanist educator who worked on indigenous ancient African history (ancient Egyptian), culture, ed...

Runoko Rashidi is an African American historian, anthropologist and public lecturer, and the world's leading authority on the African presence in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. A much sought after s...

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars. Asante is known for his writings on Afrocentricity, a school of thought that has influenced the fields of sociology, intercultural ...

"Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will be its mortal element." Edward Wilmot Blyden was a Liberian educator, writer, diplomat,...

Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique. A revolutionary political thinker, he became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. His book The Wretched of the Earth (...

“History is the struggle and record of humans in the process of humanizing the world, i.e., shaping it in their image and interests." (Black history is therefore the collective record of people of African des...

Tariq Nasheed, born July 1st, 1974 in Detroit, Michigan, is an author, documentary film producer, media personality, satirist, Internet radio host and social commentator. Nasheed produced the 2011 documentar...

"We’re universal entities. The way our DNA is coded, there’s nothing we don’t know. It’s a matter of locking into that body of information through the practices that our ancestors have left here for us ...

Dr. Umar Johnson is considered a national expert on learning disabilities and their effect on Black children, as well as being an expert on helping schools and parents modify challenging behaviours that can ult...