PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW 

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Runoko Rashidi

Rashidi was a writer and speaker who lectured on ancient Egypt, his belief in pseudo history about an African presence in prehistoric America, Africans in antiquity, and the African presence in Asia and other parts of the world. Rashidi is the author of Introduction to the Study of African Classical Civilizations] (1993) and the editor of Unchained African Voices, a collection of poetry and prose by death row inmates at California's San Quentin State Prison. He is also the author or editor of 18 books, including The African Presence in Early Asia (1985, 1988, 1995), with Ivan Van Sertima, Black Star: The African Presence in Early Europe (2012) and African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East(2013)

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Ivan Van Sertima

He was best known for his Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand of pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed in his book They Came Before Columbus (1976). While his Olmec theory has "spread widely in African American community, both lay and scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, and has been called Afrocentricpseudoarchaeology  and pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing native American cultures".

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Asa Grant Hilliard III

Asa Hilliard was the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education. Some of his many accomplishments included: serving as Dean of School of Education at San Francisco State University, an expert witness in landmark federal cases on test validity, consultant to schools in Liberia, West Africa, VP and founding member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations. Dr. Hilliard taught for many years and exclusively in the UTL Master’s Degree Program and later, Ph.D. level seminars in the College of Education & Human Development. Hilliard’s classes focused on understanding the reality of the power of teaching and schooling to produce either excellent achievement or failure.

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Cheikh Anta Diop

Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist. The questions he posed about cultural bias in scientific research contributed greatly to the postcolonial turn in the study of African civilizations.
Diop argued that there was a shared cultural continuity across African people that was more important than the varied development of different ethnic groups shown by differences among languages and cultures over time. Some of his ideas have been criticized as based upon outdated sources and an outdated conception of race. Other scholars have defended his work from what they see as widespread misrepresentation.
Cheikh Anta Diop University (formerly known as the University of Dakar), in Dakar, Senegal, is named after him

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Dr. Claud Anderson is president of PowerNomics Corporation of America, Inc. and The Harvest Institute, Inc. PowerNomics is a company that publishes his books and produces multimedia presentations in which he explains his concept, PowerNomics. PowerNomics is the package of principles and strategies he developed to explain the concept of race and to offer a guide for Black America to become a more economically and politically competitive group in America.
Dr. Anderson’s book, PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America, incorporates and reflects his past experiences: his academic research, business experience, both as an owner and a capital provider, and his varied political positions.

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Dr. Umar Johnson

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Dr. Umar Johnson is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Certified School Psychologist who is an expert on the education and mental health of Afrikan and Afrikan-American children.
Dr. Umar is the founder and lead tour guide for the "Unapologetically Afrikan" Black College & Consciousness Tour for 11 thru
17-year-old boys & girls which exposes them to the great historical Black College tradition, within the context of visiting and learning about significant places and personalities that helped shaped the global Afrikan struggle for freedom and independence.
This tour is held annually during the first two weeks of July.
Dr. Umar is the author of the book "Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education and ADHD Wars Against Black Boys," the 1st book ever written by an African-American male school psychologist to Black parents with specific strategies on how to fight back against special education and ADHD misdiagnoses. Dr.Umar also holds degrees in education and political science.

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