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Umar Rashad Ibn Abdullah-Johnson, known professionally as Dr. Umar, is an American motivational speaker and author.[1] Johnson has referred to himself as the "prince of Pan-Africanism".
Dr. Umar is an American motivational speaker, author, clinical psychologist, certified school psychologist, and Pan-Africanist activist. He is known for advocacy on education and mental health of African and African-American children, challenging misdiagnoses like ADHD and promoting Pan-African unity. Founder of the National Independent Black Parent Association and movements such as “Unapologetically Afrikan,” he authored Psycho-Academic Holocaust and Black Parent Advocate. He is developing the Frederick Douglass & Marcus Garvey RBG Leadership Academy for Boys, a Pan-Africanist residential school, and remains a widely requested speaker worldwide despite controversy over his outspoken views. 2011, he was featured on Hidden Colors: The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent, directed by Tariq Nasheed.[7] In 2013, Johnson self-published Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys, a book in which he contended that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was increasingly misdiagnosed in Black communities and that the American education system used ADHD to stigmatize black children.[8][9] In a 2017 video clip, Johnson claimed that ADHD and learning disabilities do "not exist".[10] See: Umar Johnson