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  • Contributors

Munir Akram was, from 2002 to 2008, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, where he held a number of positions, including Co-Chair for UN Management Reform, President of the Economic & Social Council, and President of the Security Council. For Ambassador Akram’s service in diplomacy and foreign policy for Pakistan since 1969, the President of Pakistan conferred upon him the award of Hilal-i-Quaid-i-Azam.

Amiri Baraka, one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, is author of more than twenty books of poems, plays, essays, fiction, the most recent being Jesse Jackson & Black People, Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems, The Essence of Reparations, Funk Lore: New Poems, and Tales of the Out & the Gone. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.

Jagdish Bhagwati, founder of the Journal of International Economics, is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. His many international services range from Economic Policy Adviser to Arthur Dunkel to Director General of GATT (1991–93). He is author of numerous articles and books; the most recent of the latter include The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization, Free Trade Today, and In Defense of Globalization. His many books have been translated into sixteen languages.

Byron Blake, a native of Guyana, is former Assistant Secretary General of CARICOM. For his outstanding service to the CARICOM Region, he has been awarded Order of Distinction, Commander Class, from the Jamaican government (1997 & 2000) and made Honorary Citizen of Newfoundland, Canada. He is author of more than fifty publications.

Tammy L. Brown is a visiting assistant professor of Black World studies at Miami University of Ohio, where she teaches African Diasporic cultural history. She holds a B. A. degree from Harvard University and a Ph. D. degree from Princeton University. She is a visual artist, a creative writer, and a historian, whose work has garnered research and writing fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the City University of New York.

Aaron Bryant is curator for the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University. His current curatorial projects include “William H. Johnson: An American Modern,” a traveling exhibition and catalog organized in association with the Smithsonian; “Most Daring Dream: Robert Houston Photography and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign,” a traveling exhibition of photographs taken during Houston’s Life Magazine coverage of Martin Luther Kings Poor People’s March in DC; and “Paper and Steel: The Art of Mel Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Richard Hunt, and William T. Williams,” a collaborative project with four artists.

Michael Collins, a native of Jamaica, is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University, College Station. His poems, interviews, and critical essays have appeared in such periodicals as The New Leader, Michigan Quarterly Review, Parnassus, Salamander, and PMLA. His “Six Sketches: When a Soul Breaks” was published in The Best American Poetry 2003. He is an associate editor of Callaloo. [End Page 1371]

Fred D’aguiar, Gloria D. Smith Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech, is author of a number of award winning books, including two plays, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death and Sweet Thames; and three novels, The Longest Memory, Dear Future, and Feeding the Ghosts; and four volumes of poems, Mama Dot, Airy Hall, British Subjects, and Bill of Rights. His numerous literary awards include the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, the Guyana Prize for Poetry, and the Whitbread Award. He was born in London, England, to Guyanese parents.

Drék Davis, a native of Monroe, Georgia, recently completed an MFA in drawing and painting at the University of Georgia. He is currently teaching art at Grambling State University in Louisiana.

David C. Driskell, visual artist and scholar, has been awarded nine honorary doctorate degrees and, by President Bill Clinton, the National Humanities Medal. David Driskell is author of Two Centuries of Black American Art, Contemporary Visual Expressions, and a number of other studies of American art. The most recently published book about his life and work is Julie McGee’s David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar (San Francisco: Pomegranate...

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