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Ivan Van Sertima: Historian, Linguist, Anthropologist, and Author

Ivan Van Sertima: Historian, Linguist, Anthropologist, and Author

Posted on15. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

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Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University in the United States. He was noted for his Afrocentric theory of pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas. His work was severely criticized.

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Antenor Firmin: Haitian Scholar and Anthropologist who predicted Barack Obama's Presidency over a century ago

Antenor Firmin: Haitian Scholar and Anthropologist who predicted Barack Obama's Presidency over a century ago

Posted on13. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

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Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was born and educated in Haiti. He studied law and held several political offices before being posted as a diplomat to Paris, where he was admitted to the Societé d’Anthropologie de Paris and wrote De L’Égalité des Races Humaines. He was a Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and politician.

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[HBCU Presidents] Dr. William H. Harris: Alabama State University

[HBCU Presidents] Dr. William H. Harris: Alabama State University

Posted on05. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

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Dr. William H. Harris first served as Alabama State University’s (ASU) president from 1994 to 2000. His commitment at that time was to transform ASU into a comprehensive regional university through excellence and diversity. In 2008, Dr. Harris once again took the helm as president of the University, introducing a new vision to transform ASU through excellence in teaching, research, service and a diverse population. He is the author of Keeping the Faith: A. Phillip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War.

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