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Julius Winfield Erving II (born February 22, 1950), commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is an American former professional basketball player. Erving helped legitimize the American Basketball Association (ABA), [1] and he was the best-known player in that league when it merged into the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the 1975–1976 season.
Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. [1] He was the first Black scholar granted tenure in the Stanford Department of Economics, and he is the father of Kamala Harris, the incumbent Vice ...
Nationality. American. John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark; January 1, 1915 – July 16, 1998) [1] was an African-American historian, professor, prominent Afrocentrist, [2] and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s. [3]
Molefi Kete Asante (/ əˈsænteɪ / ə-SAN-tay; born Arthur Lee Smith Jr.; August 14, 1942) is an American philosopher who is a leading figure in the fields of African-American studies, African studies, and communication studies. [1] He is currently a professor in the Department of Africology at Temple University, [2][3] where he founded the ...
Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.
Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. (November 27, 1923 – May 1, 2011) [1] was an American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. A child prodigy, he attended the University of Chicago at the age of 13, becoming its youngest ever student. [2][3][4] His graduation at a young age resulted in him being hailed as "the Negro Genius" in the ...
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994) Robin Davis Gibran Kelley (born March 14, 1962) [1] is an American historian and academic, who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [2][3] From 2006 to 2011, he was Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at ...
Christopher Ehret. Christopher Ehret (born 27 July 1941), who currently holds the position of Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, is an American scholar of African history and African historical linguistics particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record.