Dr. John Henrik Clarke
"To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you."
Historian, Lecturer, philosopher, writer, Pan Africanist
he was born John Henry Clark on January 1, 1915, in Union Springs, a small farming community in Alabama and died Dr John Henrik Clarke in Mount Sinai, New York, July 16,1998. John Henrik Clarke was not destined to become a small farmer as his parents thought, he beat the odds to become a stalwart in the genre of African History and education. At 18 years of age he hightailed it out of Alabama, hopped a freight train to New York, where he not only changed his name but changed his expectations and his destiny.
Assata Shakur
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
Assata Shakur is a former Black Liberation Army member and activist, born Joanne Byron in 1947, who became a symbol of Black liberation and a fugitive from the FBI after a 1973 shootout in which a state trooper died. She was convicted of the trooper’s murder, an accusation she denies, and escaped from prison in 1979 to seek political asylum in Cuba, where she continues to reside.
Malclom X
"By Any Means Necessary!"
Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.
Dr. Ase G. Hillard III
"The Problem that African people face is not simply the direct inconvenience of oppression, physical containment and brutality. The problem is one of mental containment or stated differently one consciousness. Specifically, it is a problem of consciousness or lack of awareness."
Asa G. Hilliard III (August 22, 1933 – August 13, 2007), also known as Nana Baffour Amankwatia II, was an African-American professor of educational psychology who worked on indigenous ancient African history (ancient Egyptian), culture, education and society. He was the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education at Georgia State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Education Policy Studies and the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education. Prior to his position at Georgia State, Hilliard served as the Dean of the School of Education at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California.
