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Asa Hilliard, Georgia
State University |
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Dr. Andrée-Nicola McLaughlin, Medgar Evers College, CUNY |
| Dr.
Abdulalim Shabazz, Lincoln
University |
| Dr.
Oba T'Shaka, San
Francisco State University |
| Dr.
Ernie Smith, Drew
College of Medicine |
| Dr.
Lily Golden, Russia |
| Dr.
Vimbai Chivaura,
Zimbabwe
University |
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Eintou Pearl Springer, Trinidad
& Tobago |
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Performing
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P.O.W., ÀJA,
and Nubian performers |
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Workshop presenters/panelists: TBA |
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Dr. Asa Hilliard, III
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Dr. Asa G.
Hilliard, III
is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education at Georgia State
University, with joint appointments in the Department of Educational
Policy Studies and the Department of Educational Psychology and Special
Education. A teacher, psychologist, and historian, he began his career
in the Denver Public Schools. He earned a B.A. in Educational
Psychology, M.A. in Counseling, and Ed.D in Educational Psychology from
the University of Denver, where he also taught in the College of
Education and in the Philosophy colloquium of the Centennial Scholars
Honors Program.
Dr. Hilliard served on the faculty
at San Francisco State University for eighteen years. During that time
he was a Department Chair for two years, Dean of Education for eight
years, and was consultant to the Peace Corps and Superintendent of
Schools in Monrovia, Liberia for two years. He has participated in the
development of several national assessment systems, such as proficiency
assessment for professional educators, and developmental assessments of
young children and infants. He has been active in forensic psychology,
serving as an expert witness on the winning side in several landmark
federal cases on test validity and bias.
Dr. Hilliard is a founding member
of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and
serves as its first Vice President. He is the co-developer of a popular
educational television series, Free Your Mind, Return To The Source:
African Origins, as well as having produced videotapes and educational
materials on African History through his production company, Waset
Education Productions.
Dr. Hilliard has written numerous
technical papers, articles, and books on testing, Ancient African
History, teaching strategies, public policy, cultural styles, and child
growth and development. In addition, he has consulted with many of the
leading school districts, universities, government agencies, and private
corporations on valid assessment, curriculum equity and teacher
training. Several of his programs in pluralistic curriculum, assessment,
and valid teaching have become national models. He has also been the
recipient of numerous honors and awards.
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Dr. Lily Golden
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Dr. Lily Golden,
Founding
Director, Alexander Pushkin Foundation, was
born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the former Soviet Union to an
African-American father and a Jewish-American mother. Her father, Oliver
Golden, had studied agriculture at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee
University) in Alabama under the tutelage of his mentor, Dr. George
Washington Carver. Mr. Golden found that his skills in cotton farming
technology were in great demand when he first visited the USSR in 1924.
In 1931, he immigrated there with his bride, Bertha, and 16 other
African-American agriculturalists to develop the cotton industry in
Uzbekistan.
In 1952, Lily Golden left Uzbekistan for Moscow and
became the first person of African descent to study at Moscow State
University. She later received her doctorate from the Soviet Academy of
Science. In 1987, Dr. Golden visited the U.S. for the first time as a
member of a peace delegation from the Soviet Union. For the next five
years, for three months each year, she returned to the United States to
lecture around the country. During her 1989 visit, she and her daughter
appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and were subsequently contacted by relatives
living in Chicago, which she now calls her second home.
Dr. Golden has lectured across Russia and the former
Soviet Union, Europe, Africa and the United States and is a prominent
voice in many international organizations including the American
Citizens Initiative, the International Cross-Cultural Black Women’s
Studies Institute, where she serves on the Council of Elders, and is
founder and board member of the Russian African Business Council based
in Moscow. Dr. Golden has been a visiting professor at Lumumba
University in Moscow, the Institute of Asia and Africa at Moscow State
University, the Department of African Ethnology at Leningrad University
and the History Department at Tbilisi University of Georgia, USSR. In
the United States, she served for ten years as a Distinguished Scholar
in Residence at Chicago State University. Her other books include Africans
in Russia, African Music and the African Encyclopedia Directory.
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Dr. Vimbai Chivaura
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Dr.
Vimbai G. Chivaura is senior lecturer (University of Zimbabwe). He
teaches literature, media and communication studies in the Department of
English. His publications as coeditor include Community Based Theatre
in Zimbabwe, The Human Factor Approach to Development in Africa,
and a play in Shona and English, Mavambo: The Beginning. He has
several chapters in anthologies, articles in international journals, and
feature articles in local newspapers. Dr. Chivaura has been founder
member and Chairman of the Theatre Arts Department. He is actively involved
in national service and extension work which include HIV/STD/AIDS
awareness education and counseling, and the preservation and promotion
of African indigenous knowledge systems, languages and culture. He has
served as coordinator for International Exchange Programs (University of
Zimbabwe), Chief Executive Officer (Zimbabwe Inter-Africa News Agency,
ZIANA) and member of the board (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation). He
has been a visiting scholar at several universities in the U.S.
including the Claremont Graduate School, Michigan State University,
Kalamazoo College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Bard College,
State University of New York at Buffalo, and Fort Valley State
University, Georgia.
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Dr. Andrée-Nicola
McLaughlin
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An
award-winning scholar, poet and professor of Comparative Literature and
Interdisciplinary Studies, Dr. Andrée-Nicola McLaughlin has been
in the international vanguard for women’s advancement and other social
justice struggles for more than two decades.
Dr. McLaughlin is the
founding International Coordinator of the International Cross-Cultural
Black Women’s Studies Institute (1987-), an eighteen year old global
network, and holds the Dr. Betty Shabazz Distinguished Chair in Social
Justice at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York where
the Institute’s Information Headquarters is based.
Dr.
McLaughlin has spearheaded the organizing and convening of the
Institute’s eight world conferences and four study tours in Great
Britain, USA, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Germany, Venezuela, South Africa,
Russia, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago and Japan. She has also
convened international forums on Black women at the United Nations’
3rd and 4th World Conferences on Women in Nairobi, Kenya and Beijing,
China, respectively, as well as at the UN’s 3rd World Conference
Against Racism in Durban.
In her co-edited classic, Wild
Women in the Whirlwind, a standard university text about
Black women and their literature across cultures, Dr. McLaughlin names
and defines the ongoing “intercontinental Black women’s
consciousness movement” and “intercontinental Black women’s
literary renaissance.” Dr.
McLaughlin has appeared as a guest on United Nations Television (UNTV)
and in diverse international media for her global perspectives, and
has previously held distinguished academic appointments at the
University of London Institute of Education and Hamilton College (USA).
Serving as the founding International Coordinator of the International
Resource Network of Women of African Descent (IRNWAD) from 1982-1985,
she was a focal point for research and teaching related to women in
Africa and the African Diaspora, and introduced Women’s Studies to the
curriculum at Medgar Evers College. Dr. McLaughlin has been
awarded for her long-term international work on behalf of women’s
issues by the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc. (2004) and
the International Congress of Black Women, Inc. (1995).
She
currently hosts a social justice series, “The Shabazz
Conversations,” at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture; and an educational television show, “Cross-Cultural
Perspectives.” Dr. McLaughlin earned her bachelor’s
degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree and doctorate
from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst before joining the
faculty of Medgar Evers College in 1974.
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Dr.
Abdulalim Abdullah Shabazz
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Dr. Abdulalim Abdullah
Shabazz matriculated at Lincoln University, a historically
Black university, with an A.B. with honors. He earned a M.S. in
mathematics with a minor in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Dr. Shabazz earned his Ph.D. in mathematical analysis
at Cornell University. Dr. Shabazz worked as an Assistant Research
Mathematician at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New
York and as a mathematician in the Metals Research Lab of the Electro
Metallurgical Company in Niagara Falls, New York.
He began his teaching career as a mathematician at
Cornell, then at the Tuskegee Institute as assistant professor of
mathematics, Clark Atlanta University, and later at his alma
mater, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, as Distinguished Professor of
Mathematics and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science. More than one hundred of the African American holders of
doctoral degrees in mathematics by 1992 could trace their academic
lineage back to Shabazz or to his students.
This master teacher speaks often about his philosophy
of education which stems from a belief that education for all is
possible. Dr. Shabazz emphasizes hard work and seeking excellence. As a result,
he has received numerous awards including recognition by the
Mathematical Sciences Education Board on May 4, 1990 as a professional
who has been outstanding in making mathematics work for minorities.
In
1992, he received the American Association for the Advancement of
Science Mentor Award which honors those who have demonstrated
extraordinary leadership in efforts to increase the participation in
science and engineering of women, minorities, and individuals with
physical disabilities. In April 1994, he was the National Association of
Mathematicians' Distinguished Service Award for his years of mentoring
and teaching excellence. He was named a giant in science by the Quality
Education for Minorities MSE Network for his contributions to
mathematics and his invaluable aid in increasing the participation of
minorities in mathematics, science, and engineering.
Click
here for an important interview with Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz:
Developing
African Americans in Mathematics
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Pearl Springer
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Eintou Pearl
Springer, Poet Laureate for Trinidad and Tobago, is
the Founding member of the National Drama Association for T &
T. Ms. Springer is the recipient of numerous awards for her work in theater
arts including the Vanguard Award, and the Humming Bird Silver Medal for
her contribution to the development and propagation of Arts and Culture.
Ms. Springer is a member of the Administrative
Arm of the Council of Orisa Elders of Trinidad and Tobago. As a
devotee of the traditional Africa Orisa religion, she has pioneered
original thought and research on the history and importance of the
belief system to our society. Working with a team of committed
researchers, priests, and believers, Ms. Springer has successfully
lobbied the T&T government to make the necessary changes to laws
which actively encouraged the repression of the religion and the sense
of self of the African community.
Additionally, Ms. Springer is a former librarian and
as an academic, she has shared her original thoughts on issues ranging
from African history and politics, a diverse range of women-related
subject matter and the contribution of the Orisa faith to world
development at numerous prestigious world fora in
Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
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Dr. Oba T'Shaka
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Dr. Oba T'Shaka is
a Professor in the Black Studies Department at San Francisco State
University. He served as Chair of the Black Studies Department at
San Francisco State University for twelve years. Dr. T'Shaka
is one of the principal architects of the African Centered Educational
Movement, which led to the development of an African-centered discipline
that incorporates physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics into the
core discipline of Black studies. He also led the move to define ancient
African philosophy as the foundation of the Black studies discipline.
Dr. Oba T'Shaka is the national vice chairperson of the National Black
United Front and author of five books including : The Art of
Leadership, Return to the African Mother Principle of
Male and Female Equality, The Political Legacy of Malcolm X, The Integration Trap: The Generational Gap
Oba T'Shaka has been active in Black freedom movements
since 1960. From 1963 to 1965, he was chair of San Francisco CORE
(Congress of Racial Equality), which spearheaded a campaign for jobs for
Blacks and other peoples of color in San Francisco and throughout
California. He led an international work project to Tanzania made up of
members of the Pan African People's Organization (P.A.P.O.) in 1963, and
in 1974 played a major leadership role in the Sixth Pan African Congress
in Tanzania, chairing the North American Political Committee.
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Dr. Ernie A. Smith
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Dr. Ernie A. Smith of
Charles R. Drew University Medicine and Science, California, is an
interdisciplinary scholar. He has conducted research and published
works in behavioral and social science disciplines while teaching a
variety of behavioral science, humanities and social science courses.
Until 1982, Dr. Smith was a professor of Linguistics at California State
University at Fullerton. Since then as a career shift, he has
pursued post-graduate studies and conducted research in ethno-gerontology
and biopsychosocial health. Currently Dr. Smith is a professor of
Medicine, Ethnology, and Gerontology in the Department of Internal
Medicine at Charles R. Drew University Medicine and
Science.
Among his seminal works are, The Origin and
Historical Development of Ebonics: Its Cultural Implications in
America's Schools (1975), A Case for Bilingual and Bicultural
Education for United States Slave Descendants of African Origin
(1976), Ebonics and the Standard English Barrier (1996) and a his
contribution "Ebonics and Bilingual Education" in Ebonics
and Language Education for African Ancestry Students (2001).
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Featured
Artists |
deadprez
P.O.W.
ÀJA |
deadprez &
P.O.W.
The emcees, Sticman and M-1 make up the duo called deadprez.
M-1 also goes by the name Mutulu Olugbala. The last name he shares with
his rhyme comrade comes from the Yoruba culture and means "for the
love of the people." M-1's political consciousness was sparked when
he read Alex Haley's "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." "I
was trying to be exactly like Malcolm," he says. "I tried to
change around a lot of things that I used to be doing." When M-1
was kicked out of high school for "some bullshit reasons," he
relocated to North Carolina where he finished his secondary education,
going on to attend college at Florida A&M University, where he met
stic, who would hang out on campus, though he was never enrolled for
classes.
The two comrades' growing sense of Black pride and political theory
served as a common bond as they joined various community groups,
eventually forming deadprez as a rap group and moving to New York.
After a chance meeting with Brand Nubian's Lord Jamar at a Brooklyn
block party, the duo signed a recording deal with Loud Records, which
released Let's Get Free. But even before the release of the record, deadprez amassed a strong and loyal underground following through their
explosive live shows, ardent community organizing and top notch
unreleased material. Their rigorous work ethic has continued to the
present, as evidenced by their critically acclaimed black market
release, Turn Off the Radio, which revamped dance hits by artists such
as Aaliyah and Black Rob into mind-awakening food for thought with
titles like "We Need a Revolution" and "That's War!"
http://www.bossupbu.com P.O.W: comprised of two conscious and pro-active young men,
Umi (of deadprez) and Scribe, speak of the real issues of America and
world with their in-your-face style. They have opened for The Roots,
Tribe Called Quest, & Erykah Badu. The current project "The
Street Report Volume 1," is a testament to their pure talent & love
for life. http://www.toxicpop.com
ÀJA
is a poet, musician and photographer from Barbados. From his
emergence as a poet in the early 1980's, he has been focusing on global
issues such as war, poverty, racism and the abuse of women and
children. This is to educate and inform his audiences about these
negative situations taking place in the world. ÀJA
was also inspired to launch an international charity,
International Foundation for Peace and the Eradication of Poverty (IFPEP)
and was appointed by the United Nations as the Spokesperson for Peace
and Poverty for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. ÀJA has produced
five albums, books of poetry and performed for audiences internationally.
In addition, the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) made his
documentary entitled, Don't Let Them Die: The Journey of ÀJA,
which chronicled his travels around the world, which include South
Africa, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, Israel, and Palestine. His
e-book of poetry and photographs entitled, Don't Let Me Die, was
released in January of 2005. As a true humanitarian, ÀJA donates the proceeds
from the e-book to charities and humanitarian projects around the world.
www.ajapoet.com
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