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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 J. Harris. 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 ...
July 16, 1998. (1998-07-16) (aged 83) Manhattan, New York City. Occupation. Writer, historian, professor. 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 ...
City College of New York. San Jose State University. Leonard Jeffries Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is an American political scientist, Black supremacist, and former academic. He was the departmental chair of Black Studies at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey.
Moneta J. Sleet Jr. (February 14, 1926 – September 30, 1996) was an American press photographer best known for his work as a staff photographer for Ebony magazine. In 1969 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photograph of Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr. 's widow, at her husband's funeral. Sleet was the ...
Northwestern University (MA, PhD) Johnnetta Betsch Cole (born October 19, 1936) is an American anthropologist, educator, museum director, and college president. Cole was the first female African-American president of Spelman College, a historically black college, serving from 1987 to 1997. She was president of Bennett College from 2002 to 2007.
Moneta Sleet Jr. (1926–1996), won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, at Dr. King's funeral. Sleet is the first African American man to win the Pulitzer, [18] and the first African American to win award for journalism. [19]
Jonathan Luke Wood[1] (born February 21, 1982), known professionally as J. Luke Wood, is the ninth president of Sacramento State. [2][3] Wood is an American social scientist, author, [4][5] and previously served as the first Black distinguished Professor at San Diego State University. Wood is ranked by Education Week as a top 50 scholar in the ...