Some Legit Black Scholars???
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Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Founder of the Black Youth Project, a national organization that amplifies the voices of young black activists
When I asked Cohen what conversation black people need to be engaged in now, she said, “It’s hard to say anything other than Baltimore. In many ways, Baltimore is representative of what many people have called the neoliberal city.” She defined this as a city that has adopted policies that prioritize “privatization, disinvestment from poor communities and communities of color, disinvestment from the welfare state and reinvestment in the carceral state.
“How do we begin to think about the larger context in which the killing of Michael Brown or Tamir Rice continues to happen? These aren’t isolated incidents. This is about how we invest in cities, how we humanize black people, the segregation of white people.… Whites are probably the most segregated group in the country. That allows for the dehumanization of young black people, in that you get police officers who really do believe that they fear for their lives when they encounter young black men, because they are only privy to pop cultural representations.
“We also want to pay attention to the type of resistance and mobilization that we’re seeing from young black people in this moment. We’re in the process of reimagining what black politics is going to look like.” Cohen points to Millennials’ use of online social networks for organizing, as well as their efforts to build movements that explicitly reject sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. “Those of us in the academy, we have an opportunity to help amplify the voices of young black activists who are really reframing what black politics might be in the 21st century. We have an opportunity and a responsibility to empower them.”
Larry Lobster
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Tariq KING Flex Nasheed 
Carter G. Woodson:
The first Scholar to originate Black History Month
...and, notarized OUR Bible (I believe): The Mis-Education of the Negro
Thanks Coli Bros for schoolin me on these other Master Teachers: BLACKEXCELLENCE
The first Scholar to originate Black History Month
...and, notarized OUR Bible (I believe): The Mis-Education of the Negro
Thanks Coli Bros for schoolin me on these other Master Teachers: BLACKEXCELLENCE
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JA Rogers
Self-trained historian, novelist, and journalist Joel Augustus Rogers spent most of his life debunking pseudo-scientific and racist depictions of people of African ancestry while popularizing the history of persons of black people around the world. Rogers was born September 6, 1883 in Negril, Jamaica. He and his siblings were raised, after their mother passed, by their schoolteacher father, Samuel John Rogers. Rogers emigrated to the United States in 1906 and Joel Rogers became a naturalized citizen in 1917. Rogers lived briefly in Chicago before eventually settling in New York City.
Joel Rogers held a variety of jobs including a Pullman porter, and a teacher, but eventually found his niche as a journalist and historian. In this capacity, he began to focus on combating what he saw as white racist propaganda history in both books and popular films and other media of the period that omitted persons of African ancestry as contributors to world history. Towards that end, Rogers in 1917 published his seminal work, From Superman to Man. In this work Rogers had his protagonist, a racist Southern senator, realizing finally that he was only a man, create a Hollywood film studio that would produce films that highlighted Africa's gifts to the world. Subsequent Rogers books also dealt with this theme including 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro (1934), Sex and Race Volume 1 (1941), Sex and Race, Volume 2 (1942); Sex and Race, Volume III (1944); World’s Great Men of Color (1946), and Africa’s Gifts to America (1961).
By the 1930s and 1940s Rogers was writing history columns in a number of leading black newspapers including the Pittsburgh Courier, Messenger, Crisis, Mercury, and the New York Amsterdam News. Typical of such articles was his 1940 piece in Crisis titled “The Suppression of Negro History.” Rogers was present at the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1930 and five years later covered the Italo-Ethiopian conflict as the war correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier.
Although Rogers had no formal educational degrees or training in established academic programs, he was widely recognized for his professional excellence and intellect throughout his career. He belonged to the Paris Society for Anthropology, American Geographical Society, and the Academy of Political Science; in addition, he was also multilingual, mastering German, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Joel A. Rogers wrote anti-racist history using universal humanity as his theme until his death in New York City on March 26, 1966. His wife Helga Rogers continued to re-publish Rogers’ works for some years after his passing.
John G Jackson
John Glover Jackson (April 1, 1907 – October 13, 1993) was a Pan-Africanist historian, lecturer, teacher and writer. He promoted ideas of Afrocentrism, atheism, and Jesus Christ in comparative mythology.
Jackson was born in Aiken, South Carolina on 1 April 1907 and raised Methodist. At age 15 he moved to Harlem, New York, where he enrolled in Stuyvesant High School. During this time, Jackson became interested in African American history and culture and began writing essays on the subject. They were so impressive that in 1925, while still a high school student, Jackson was invited to write for Marcus Garvey's newspaper, Negro World.
From 1930 onwards, Jackson became associated with a number of Pan-African historians, activists and writers, including Hubert H. Harrison, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, John Henrik Clarke, Willis Nathaniel Huggins and Joel Augustus Rogers. He also authored a number of books on African history, promoting a Pan-African and Afrocentrist view, such as Man, God, and Civilization (1972) and Introduction to African Civilizations (1974). He also became interested in the idea of Christianity's origins in the Egyptian religion. A staunch atheist, he authored a number of books on the idea, including The African Origin of Christianity (1981) and Christianity before Christ (1985), as well as writing the foreword to Gerald Massey's Lectures (1974). He also wrote the controversial text,
Was Jesus Christ a Negro? (1984), which argued that Jesus may have been a black man. In 1987, Jackson wrote a biographical article about Hubert Harrison for American Atheists called "Hubert Henry Harrison: The Black Socrates". In it, he praised not only Harrison's agnostic atheism, but also his educational and civil rights achievements. It was later published as a seven page paperback book.
During his life, Jackson also served as Associate Director of the Blyden Society and lectured at many colleges and universities throughout the United States. He died on 13 October 1993.
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Asante has published 77 books, among the most recent are The Dramatic Genius of Charles Fuller, African American Traditions, Facing South to Africa, The History of Africa 2nd Edition, As I Run Toward Africa, The African American People, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait, An Afrocentric Manifesto, Encyclopedia of African Religion, co-edited with Ama Mazama, Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait, Handbook of Black Studies, co-edited with Maulana Karenga, Encyclopedia of Black Studies, co-edited with Ama Mazama, Race, Rhetoric, and Identity: The Architecton of Soul, Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation, Ancient Egyptian Philosophers, Scattered to the Wind, and 100 Greatest African Americans. Asante’s high school text, African American History: Journey of Liberation, 2nd Edition, is used in more than 400 schools throughout North America.
Asante has been recognized as one of the ten most widely cited African Americans. He is honored as a HistoryMaker with an archival interview in the US Library of Congress. In the 1990s, Black Issues in Higher Education recognized him as one of the most influential leaders in the decade. Molefi Kete Asante graduated from Oklahoma Christian College in 1964. He completed his M.A. at Pepperdine University in 1965. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA at the age of 26 in 1968 and was appointed a full professor at the age of 30 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1969 he was the co-founder with Robert Singleton of the Journal of Black Studies. Asante directed UCLA’s Center for Afro American Studies from 1969 to 1973. He chaired the Communication Department at SUNY-Buffalo from 1973-1980. He worked in Zimbabwe as a trainer of journalists from 1980 to 1982. In the Fall of 1984 Dr. Asante became chair of the African American Studies Program at Temple University where he created the first Ph.D. Program in African American Studies in 1987. He has directed more than 140 Ph.D. dissertations. He has written more than 550 articles and essays for journals, books and magazines and is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity.
Asante was born in Valdosta, Ga., one of sixteen children. He is a poet, dramatist, and a painter. His work on African culture and philosophy and African American education has been cited by journals such as the Matices, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Communication, American Scholar, Daedalus, Western Journal of Black Studies, and Africaological Perspectives. The Utne Reader called him one of the “100 Leading Thinkers” in America. In 2001, Transition Magazine reported “Asante may be the most important professor in Black America.” He has appeared on Nightline, Nighttalk, BET, Macnell Lehrer News Hour, Today Show, the Tony Brown Show, Night Watch, Like It Is and 60 Minutes and more than one hundred local and international television shows. He has appeared in several movies including 500 Years Later, The Faces of Evil, and The Black Candle. In 2002 he received the distinguished Douglas Ehninger Award for Rhetorical Scholarship from the National Communication Association. The African Union cited him as one of the twelve top scholars of African descent when it invited him to give one of the keynote addresses at the Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar in 2004. He was inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University in 2004. In April 2014 he was invited to give a speech at the UN’s General Assembly on Peace in Africa. In 2014 he was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Japan Black Studies Association’s 60th conference in Kyoto, Japan. Dr. Asante holds more than 100 awards for scholarship and teaching including the Fulbright, honorary doctorates from three universities, and is a guest professor at Zhejiang University and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa.
In 1995 he was made a traditional king, Nana Okru Asante Peasah, Kyidomhene of Tafo, Akyem, Ghana. In 2012 he was given the title of Wanadoo of Gao in the court of the Amiru Hassimi Maiga of Songhoy. Dr. Asante has been or is presently a consultant for a dozen school districts. He was the Chair of the United States Commission for FESMAN III for three years. Asante was elected in September, 2009, by the Council of African Intellectuals as the Chair for the Diaspora Intellectuals in support of the United States of Africa. Dr. Molefi Asante believes it is not enough to know; one must act to humanize the world.
Remy Danton
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Asa G Hillard
i need to come back to this thread
i need to come back to this thread
Michelle Alexander
i'll come back and add some details to this individuals but:
Theophile Obenga ( thinking about doing a thread on one of his lectures pertaining to the Medu Neter)
Bontochi Montogomery
Theophile Obenga ( thinking about doing a thread on one of his lectures pertaining to the Medu Neter)
Bontochi Montogomery
Dr. Amos Wilson
One of the most intellectually and systematic thinkers on black psychology I've ever come across. Had to view some of his appearances a few times to grasp his message. Some of the stuff he mentions I still have to go back to mull over. Definitely not for light weights.
One of the most intellectually and systematic thinkers on black psychology I've ever come across. Had to view some of his appearances a few times to grasp his message. Some of the stuff he mentions I still have to go back to mull over. Definitely not for light weights.
SuperNintendo Chalmers
Send it to the friggin moon idiot
Ashe to all who been mentioned. Someone even mentioned Dr. Greg Carr from Howard U. Good shyt.
Dr. Jared Ball also for contemporaries.
African Warrior scholars changed my life for the better.
Dr. Jared Ball also for contemporaries.
African Warrior scholars changed my life for the better.