Edward L. Palmer was the founder of the Afro-American Patrolman’s League and chair of Chicago Sister Cities Committee under Mayors Harold Washington and Eugene Sawyer. Also, he was the coordinator for Harold Washington’s mayoral campaign on south side Chicago. His past affiliations with organizations such as United Towns Organization,
Paris, France - Executive Committee; Institute for Government and Public Affairs - Fellow; Executive director of COMPRAND; University of
Illinois - Senior Fellow and George Mason School of Conflict Resolution - Fellow. He is currently a scholar activist at Morehouse College.
Alice J. Palmer, PhD was the Illinois State Senator, 13th District, Chicago and Associate Dean of Students and Director of African American Student Affairs at Northwestern University. She taught at University of Illinois - Research Associate Professor and was affliliated with Illinois State Universities Retirement System Board and National Policy Council of AARP. She was the co-author of The Mature Student’s Guide to Reading and Composition and Editor and Publisher of The Black Press Review and New Deliberations and participates in The International Organization of Journalists, SNCC Chicago History Committee and Ida’s Legacy Committee.
David B. Robinson is the Communications and Organizing Director for Manufacturing Renaissance. After completing his undergraduate studies at Morehouse College Robinson began his varied and unique professional life as a reporter for the Detroit News, then as an editor for United Press International (UPI), and later, as a senior editor and columnist for the Black Press Review, the Agenda literary magazine. In his spare time mentors young people and writes books, screenplays and children’s stories and he also is a sought after political campaign and policy strategist.
Haki R. Madhubuti Liberation Narratives
31 books. He founded Third World Press in 1967 and is also a founder of the Institute
of Positive Education/New Concept School, co-founder of Betty Shabazz International
Charter School, Barbara A. Sizemore Middle School, and DuSable Leadership Academy.
Professor Madhubuti is also a founder and chairman of the board of the International
Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. He is an award-winning poet
and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the
Humanities fellowships, American Book Award, and others. His distinguished fortythree-
year teaching career includes faculty positions at Columbia College of Chicago,
Cornell University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Howard University, Morgan State
University, the University of Iowa and Chicago State University. Madhubuti most
recently served as the 2010-2011 Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor at DePaul
University. His latest book of poems is Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks: The
Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice.
