Herb Boyd teaches at the College of New Rochelle & New York University. He lives in New York City.
Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.nbsp; He received his B.A. and M.A. innbsp; political science from UCLA, a Ph.D. in political science from United States International University and a second Ph.D. in social ethics from the University of Southern California.nbsp; An activist-scholar, he is chair of The Organization Us, National Association of Kawaida Organizations and executive director of the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies.nbsp; He is also creator of the pan-African holiday Kwanzaa and author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Introduction to Black Studies , Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community… and Culture ; Kawaida: A Communitarian African Philosophy ; Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings ; Selections From The Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt ; and Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics . A leading scholar in the development of the discipline of Black Studies, his fields of teaching and research are: Black Studies theory and history, Africana (continental and diasporan) philosophy; ancient Egyptian (Maatian) ethics; ancient Yoruba (Ifa) ethics; African American intellectual history; ethnic relations and the socio-ethical thought of Malcolm X.nbsp; He is currently writing a book on Malcolm X and the Critique of Domination: An Ethics of Liberation .
Haki R. Madhubuti, an award-winning poet, educator, essayist, founder and publisher of Third World Press, is the author of thirty-one books. He is the co-founder of the Institute of Positive Education and the co-founder of four schools in Chicago. He is a retired university professor. Madhubuti's latest book of poems is Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice.