Critical analysis and information to help advance Black
Liberation, Socialism, Peoples' Science and Environmental Justice for
the sake of our children's children and Mother Earth.
------------------------------------------------A Brief Bio of S. E. Anderson
;) S. E. Anderson is an activist-teacher-writer native of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy. He has recently taught at NYU’s Gallatin School. He was for five years, the Education Director at Medgar Evers College’s Center for Law & Social Justice.
S. E. Anderson was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party as well as an activist within the Student Nonviolent Committee (SNCC) and the Black Arts Movement of the Sixties. He became one of the first Black Studies directors in 1969 when he was hired to chair Sarah Lawrence College’s Black Studies program. He has been an activist since the 1960's within various organizations and struggles. S. E. Anderson was also a founding member of the Black Student Congress, African Heritage Studies Association, African Liberation Support Committee, The Black New York Action Committee, Black Liberation Press, The New York Algebra Project. He is currently active with Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence (BNYEE), the Independent Commission on Public Education in NYC (ICOPE), The State of Black Education Retreat and The National Reparations Congress, and is a founding Board of Trustees member of The Malcolm X Museum. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Brecht Forum.
S. E. Anderson has taught mathematics at Queens College, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY at Old Westbury College, Rutgers University and the New School University as well as CCNY & Queens Colleges’ Centers for Worker Ed. He has also spent many years working within the anti-apartheid movement and for various African Liberation struggles. He is currently doing national and international education consulting work with a particular focus on developing Africa Diaspora’s Math and Science curriculum. He is also a math/science consultant within the African American education community from public schools to the university.
He has lectured widely throughout the US, the Caribbean and Africa on topics ranging from African and African American History to Science & Technology and its role in Africa and the Caribbean.
S. E. Anderson has written not only The Black Holocaust for Beginners (Writers & Readers), but also co-authored with French Physicist Maurice Bazin a two volume work entitled The Third World Confronts Science & Technology (Livros Horizonte- Portugal, 1976) and, with Tony Medina, edited the award winning In Defense of Mumia (Writers & Readers). He has written numerous essays on the Black Liberation Movement as well as on math and science and technology as they relate to the Black Liberation struggle.
He is currently editing The Reparations Now! Reader and is writing for Writers & Readers two more For Beginners Books: Slavery For Beginners and Race For Beginners.
S. E. Anderson lives in Bed-Stuy with his writer-activist wife, Rosemari Mealy. They have two sons, Marc & Dedan and two granddaughters, Nandi and Amari.
He can be reached at <blackeducator@gmail.com>. Visit his blog: blackeducator.blogspot.com
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Mumia Abu Jamal is
a Black Political Prisoner on Pennsylvania's DeathRow since 1982.
Inspite of being under the harsh deathrow conditions, Brotha Mumia is
able to get out four books and weekly commentaries both in writing and
audio for radio (go to: for info on when his commentaries get aired).
The Black Holocaust for Beginners , by Sam E. Anderson: Unlike Addicted to War, Anderson's The Black Holocaust
is not a comic book. It is heavily, and expertly illustrated, yet what
drives the book is the text, as raw as new wounds on the skin of the
psyche. It is a brilliant telling of, not just the trans-Atlantic slave
trade, but the equally monstrous Arab slave trade along the eastern
shores of Africa, which lasted some 600 years longer, and lasts up
until our age. It is written in matter-of-fact style, straight forward;
a chilling portrayal of foreign rapes and exploitation of Africa. It
shows that the trade in human bondage was a global process, which
involved and impacted millions of people. It uses both classical texts
(like Cheikh Anta Diop's Civilization or Barbarism ) and numerous
records from the period to give the speech, and flavor of the times to
illustrate how economic, political, and social forces converged to
justify slavery, and exploit the labor of millions. It's not 'fun'
(it's not supposed to be), but it is informative. It really is the
roots of America and much of the West.
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