Pan African Studies Department
California State University, Northridge
Safe Haven: A Pan African Studies Universe
"Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its own destiny: fulfill it, or betray it!"--Frantz Fanon
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Minister Malcolm X, two giants who each, in their own way as change agents for the 20th century and beyond, represented as well as articulated the dreams, desires and ambitions of Black America.
California State University,Northridge Library Guide
The Signifying Monkey: A Pan African Webliography
Pan African Studies 155 - Freshman Composition/Ticket No. 12020, Spring 2009
Pan African Studies 300 - Contemporary Issues in the African American Community/Ticket No. 11792, Spring 2009
Pan African Studies 350 - Advanced Writing/Ticket No. 11487, Spring 2009
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education's Circle of Excellence Silver Medalist,
Best Feature Article, "The Fire This Time"
"Watts, 1966" -- the Poem first presented in NBC-TV Emmy Award-winning Documentary Special The Angry Voices of Watts(1966, See page 56 "Responding to Crises" from Legacy of Leadership published by National Endowment of the Arts)
On Tuesday, January 20th, 2009, at 9:00am, an estimated 5 billion people in 240 nation-states and territories around the world either listened to radioes, watched television or the Internet as 47-year-old Barack Hussein Obama took the Inaugural Oath in assuming the 44th Presidency of the United States of America and becoming the first member of a racial minority group, i.e., African American, to do so. The 5 billion worldwide witnesses to this historic event dwarfed the previous record of 100 million people who watched the final episode of the television series MASH in ushering in a paradigm shift the likes of which has neverbefore been seen.
