About the Author

Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou authored the critically acclaimed urbansouls and is an ordained Elder in the Church of God in Christ (Pentecostal). He has held fellowships at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, The Fellowship of Reconciliation, Catholics for a Free Choice, and New York Theological Seminary's Micah Institute. He has given over 1000 lectures throughout the country and abroad, including Harvard Divinity School, Princeton University, University of Virginia, the University of Paris IV- La Sorbonne, Ta-Maturuk Library (Beirut, Lebanon), World Culture Center (Berlin, Germany), and Bahcesehir University (Istanbul, Turkey). Rev. Sekou produced and directed the short documentary film, Exiles in the Promised Land: The Quest for Home. Recognizing his distinguished work as public intellectual, the Institute for Policy Studies-appointed Rev. Sekou as an Associate Fellow in Religion and Justice. Rev. Sekou received the Keeper of the Flame Award 2011 by the National Voting Rights Institute and Museum in Selma, AL. For more information visit: www.revsekou.org