• Baba Imari Obadele
• Arikana Chihombori-Quao, MD, FAAFP
• Queen Afua
• Ezrah Aharone
• Professor James Small
• Attorney Chokwe Lumumba
• Baba Khalid A Muhammad
• Queen Mother Bettie Shabazz
• John G Jackson
• Dr. Boyce Watkins
• Dr. Ray Haggin
• Queen Mother Shahrazad Ali
• Anthony T Browder
• Baba Runoko Rashidi
• Dr. Resmaa Menakem
• Honorable Marcus Garvey
• Bobby Hemmitt
• James Baldwin
• Richard Wright
• Queen Mother Ella Baker
• Baba Imari Obedella

Sunrise: July 27, 1898 in Iberia, Louisiana

Sunset: May 2, 1997 in Brooklyn, New York

Queen Mother (Audley) Moore was a Black nationalist who was committed to self-determination and land independence. Influenced by the spirit of Marcus Messiah Garvey and the Mandelas of the NAC (National African Congress), Queen Mother Moore co-founded the Republic of New Afrika in 1968 and is esteemed as the Mother of today’s Reparations Movement.

“It’s Past Due. The United States will never be able to pay us all they owe us. They don’t have the money. But they’ll owe it”

Angela Davis
Sunrise: Jan 26, 1944 in Birmingham,  Alabama

As a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, she formed a close bond with the Black Panther Party of Oakland, CA in the late 1960s. Throughout her life time, she has authored many  books. Today, she sustains an illustrious  journey in academia with such institutions as University of California (Santa Cruz), Rutgers University, and Vassar. She continues to “agitate and organize” for human rights with strong activism on the prison industrial complex in the U.S.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

Elaine Brown

Sunrise: March 2, 1943

She’s the former Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, Oakland, CA. Her experience with the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and early ‘70s led her to author important works. Today, she continues to work diligently for the empowerment of Black people as the founder and chief visionary of several institutions such as Oakland & the World Enterprises.

“We have to acknowledge that there are massive problems if we want to facilitate change.”

Fannie Lou Hamer

Sunrise: October 6, 1917 in Ruleville, Mississippi

Sunset: March 14, 1977 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi

As a human rights activist, Sister Fannie worked tirelessly  to desegregate the Mississippi Democratic Party with robust voter’s registration drives in securing Black people’s right to vote.

“Sometimes it seem[s] like to tell the truth is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.”

Dr. Marimba Ani

Dr. Marimba Ani born Dona Richards is an anthropologist and African Studies Scholar from the USA. She is best known for her work #Yurugu, a comprehensive critique of European thought and culture published in 1994.The title is from a #Dogon legend. She completed her BA degree at the University of Chicago, and holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School University.[1] In 1964, during Freedom Summer, she served as an SNCC field secretary. She has taught as a Professor of African Studies in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City,[1][3] and is credited with introducing the term Maafa to describe the African holocaust. She is Director of the Afrikan Heritage Afterschool Program, a voluntary effort which has been operating in the Harlem Community for the past 14 years. Marimba Ani holds a BA degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and the MA and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School University. She is Professor of Afrikan Studies in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City.

“Your culture is your immune system.”

John Henrik Clarke

Sunrise: January 1, 1915 

Sunset: July 16, 1998

Born John Henry Clark was an African-American historian, professor, prominent Afrocentrist, and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.  Clarke was a professor of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York from 1969 to 1986, where he served as founding chairman of the department.  Additionally, in 1968 he founded the African Heritage Studies Association and the Black Caucus of the African Studies Association.

Clarke advocated for studies of the African-American experience and the place of Africans in world history. He challenged the views of academic historians and helped shift the way African history was studied and taught. Clarke was “a scholar devoted to redressing what he saw as a systematic and racist suppression and distortion of African history by traditional scholars”. His writing included six scholarly books and many scholarly articles. He was a founder with Leonard Jeffries and first president of the African Heritage Studies Association, which supported scholars in areas of history, culture, literature, and the arts. He was a founding member of other organizations to support work in black culture: the Black Academy of Arts and Letters and the African-American Scholars’ Council.

“Everything that touches your life, must be an instrument of your liberation or tossed into the trash cans of history.”

Sunrise: March 18, 1935, Chicago, IL

Sunset: January 2, 2016 Washington, D.C

Frances Luella Welsing was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the Black supremacist melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture. Twenty-two years later she released The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors, a compilation of essays she had written about global and local race relations. She is quoted as saying, “I won’t rest until Black children are taught to love themselves as themselves.”

“We do not realize that the massive deaths of Black males constitute the genocide of Black people (as it takes Black males to make Black babies and ensure future Black generations).”