Notes on Contributors

PROUD FLESH: A New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness (2003)

ISSN: 1094-2254

Notes on Contributors

Elaine Brown is former Chairman of the Black Panther Party and author of A TASTE OF POWER and THE CONDEMNATION OF LITTLE. Presently a college lecture she is Director of Political Affairs for the National Alliance for Radical Prison Reform; Executive Director of the Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee; and Board member of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation.

Phyllis Lynne Burns is a Ph.D candidate, in English, at Michigan State University.

Brian Gilmore, Poet, writer, and public interest attorney. Born and raised in Washington DC. Author of two collections of poetry -- Elvis Presley Is Alive and Well and Living In Harlem (Third World Press -Chicago 1993) and Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags: Poem For Duke Ellington (Karibu Books 2000).

Hawa Martina Jalloh, born in New Jersey, studies Speech Communications at Syracuse University and appreciates Spoken Word and Dance.

Ajua Kouadio is a sophomore at Syracuse University, studying Social Studies Education and African American Studies.

Aaron Kamugisha is a doctoral candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. He has previously studied at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus and the University of California, Berkeley.

Tiffany N. McDonald is from Queens NY, and is double-majoring in Political Science and English at Syracuse University.

Quincy T. Norwood, Sherrard Elementary School/City of Detroit Empowerment Zone, Detroit, MI. Q. obtained his Master’s in English from Michigan State University, and now teaches for City of Detroit Empowerment Zone at Sherrard Elementary School.

Maria Teixeira’s, is currently an undergraduate at Syracuse University in Arts & Sciences.

Greg Thomas, Editor of PROUDFLESH, teaches African Diaspora as an Assistant Professor in English and Textual Studies at Syracuse University in New York.

The Coloniality Working Group (CWG) is a research group which, based at the State University of New York at Binghamton, has local and non-local members. Yerie Yoon and Michael West appear graciously as intellectual guests.