William Leo Hansberry (February 25, 1894 – November 3, 1965) was an American scholar, lecturer, and pioneering Afrocentrist. He was the elder brother of real estate broker Carl Augustus Hansberry, the uncle of award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and the great-granduncle of actress Taye Hansberry.

Life and Career

Hansberry was born in Gloster, Amite County, Mississippi, to Elden Hayes Hansberry and Pauline (Bailey) Hansberry. His father, a professor of agriculture at Alcorn A&M in Lorman, Mississippi, died when Hansberry was just three years old. He and his younger brother Carl were subsequently raised by their stepfather, Elijah Washington.

In 1915, Hansberry enrolled at Atlanta University, where a newly published collection of essays on race from the university’s Sociology Department deeply influenced his thinking. Another formative influence was W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Negro. After attempting to consult the book’s references, Hansberry discovered that Atlanta University’s library lacked adequate research materials. Dissatisfied, he left the institution only two weeks into his sophomore year and sought a better-equipped university open to Black students. He began studying at Harvard University in February 1917 and completed his undergraduate degree there in 1921.

Following graduation, Hansberry taught for one year at Straight College (now Dillard University) in New Orleans. In September 1922, he joined the faculty of Howard University, where he founded the African Civilization Section within the History Department.

Hansberry earned his master’s degree from Harvard in 1932 and pursued additional graduate studies at the University of Chicago, Oxford University, and Cairo University. Despite his extensive expertise, he was unable to complete a doctorate because no institution had faculty qualified to supervise a dissertation in his specialized field of African studies.

At Howard University, Hansberry taught courses on African civilizations and cultures. By the mid-1930s, he had gained international recognition as a leading scholar. Among his students were future African leaders Kwame Nkrumah, who later became Ghana’s first prime minister and president, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, who studied under Hansberry from 1928 to 1929 and later became Nigeria’s first president. In 1961, Azikiwe, then serving as Nigeria’s Governor-General, offered to finance the publication of Hansberry’s major work, The Rise and Decline of the Ethiopian Empire, in recognition of its significance.

Although his classes were widely popular, two senior faculty members accused Hansberry of presenting material without sufficient research support. Facing possible dismissal and the elimination of the African studies program, Hansberry presented extensive documentation to the Board of Trustees. While the program survived, his research funding was cut, and he did not receive tenure until 1938.

Despite conducting vast amounts of research throughout his career, Hansberry remained hesitant to publish his work. Former student and Howard University professor James Williams recalled in 1972 that Hansberry consistently declined publication requests, replying with a smile, “I am not ready yet.”

Hansberry retired from Howard University in June 1959.

Shahid Bolsen explains how the pursuit of the unrealistic goal of “ending racism” becomes a trap—one that leaves oppressed communities waiting on a moral transformation from their oppressors that is unlikely to ever happen.

Shahid Bolsen dismantles the sudden “expertise” around Sudan and the scripted smear of the GCC—especially the UAE. He lays out how narrative factories redirect anger toward Muslim governments, erase Sudanese agency, and sabotage Arab-African cohesion. The monologue tracks RSF’s long roots inside Sudan, the economics of illicit gold, the broken incentives of Western outrage cycles, and why real outcomes will come from regional negotiation—not imported scripts. It ends with a warning: America’s system is propped up like a body on a staff—it looks upright until it collapses.

The association arises from a 1991 video titled The Lazar Tape... and Excerpts from the Government Bible. In this video, Lazar claims to have read classified documents while working at the secret S-4 facility near Area 51. He alleges that these documents contained startling information about human history and religious origins that would challenge and potentially destabilize established religious beliefs.

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Lazar's claims about the secret "government bible" include the following:

Humans are "containers": He alleged that the documents referred to humans as "containers" for something more, like souls or consciousness, from the alien perspective.

Alien involvement in human history: He claimed the documents discussed alien involvement in human affairs over the past 10,000 years.

Challenging religious views: Lazar suggested the information in the documents was sensitive because it could completely upend humanity's understanding of its own origins and religion.

Reliability of Lazar's claims

It is important to note that Lazar's testimony is considered a conspiracy theory and has been widely discredited by scientists and skeptics. The following points raise serious questions about his credibility:

Unverifiable credentials: Lazar claims to have master's degrees from MIT and Caltech, but there is no record of him attending either university.

No evidence of employment: Official records do not support his claims of employment at Los Alamos National Laboratory or the secret facilities near Area 51.

Element 115 discrepancy: While he famously mentioned Element 115 in 1989 before it was artificially created, the stable version he claimed aliens used does not match the highly unstable element later synthesized by scientists.

Robert Scott Lazar (/ləˈzɑːr/) is an American conspiracy theorist. In 1989, Lazar claimed to have been part of a classified US government project concerned with the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology; he also purported to have read government briefing documents that described alien involvement in human affairs over the past 10,000 years. A self-proclaimed physicist, Lazar supposedly worked at a secret site near the United States Air Force facility popularly known as Area 51. His story brought additional public attention to the facility and spawned conspiracy theories regarding government knowledge of extraterrestrial life.

Lazar has provided no evidence of alien life or technology, and his claims about his education and employment history are replete with fabrications. Lazar also has several criminal convictions: he was convicted in 1990 for his involvement in a prostitution ring, and again in 2006 for selling illegal chemicals. As well as being dismissed by skeptics, Lazar has been denounced by some ufologists.

Since 1989, Lazar has achieved public notoriety as an Area 51 conspiracy theorist. In May of that year, he appeared in an interview with investigative reporter George Knapp on Las Vegas TV station KLAS, under the pseudonym "Dennis" and with his face hidden, to discuss his purported employment at "S-4", a subsidiary facility he claimed exists near the Nellis Air Force Base installation known as Area 51. 

Lazar said that his job was to help with the reverse engineering of one of nine flying saucers, which he alleged were extraterrestrial in origin. He claims one of the flying saucers, the one he coined the "Sport Model", was manufactured out of a metallic substance similar in appearance and touch to liquid titanium.

In a subsequent interview that November, Lazar appeared unmasked and under his own name, where he claimed that his job interview for work at the facility was with contractor EG&G and that his employer was the United States Navy. EG&G stated it had no records on him. His supposed employment at a Nellis Air Force Base subsidiary has also been discredited by skeptics, as well as by the United States Air Force.

Lazar has claimed that the studied vehicle was fueled by the chemical element with atomic number 115 (E115), which had not yet been artificially created. E115 was first synthesized in 2003 and later named moscovium. Lazar said that the propulsion system relied on a stable isotope of E115. No stable isotopes of moscovium have yet been synthesized. All have proven extremely radioactive, decaying in a few hundred milliseconds.

An Area 51 gate

Lazar alleges that his employment and education records have been erased, an allegation that Friedman, Prothero and author Timothy D. Callahan consider implausible. His story has drawn significant media attention, controversy, supporters, and detractors. Lazar has presented no actual evidence of alien life or technology.

Lazar owns and operates United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies, a company that sells a variety of materials and chemicals. In 2017, Lazar's workplace was raided by the FBI and local police. The raid was reported as part of a murder investigation (in which Lazar is not listed as a suspect) to determine if United Nuclear sold thallium to a murder suspect in Michigan.

Criminal convictions

In 1990, Lazar was arrested for aiding and abetting a prostitution ring. This was reduced to felony pandering, to which he pleaded guilty. He was ordered to do 150 hours of community service, stay away from brothels, and undergo psychotherapy.

In 2006, Lazar and his wife were charged with violating the Federal Hazardous Substances Act for shipping restricted chemicals across state lines. The charges stemmed from a 2003 raid on United Nuclear's business offices, where chemical sales records were examined. United Nuclear pleaded guilty to three criminal counts of introducing into interstate commerce, and aiding and abetting the introduction into interstate commerce, of banned hazardous substances. In 2007, United Nuclear was fined $7,500 for violating a law prohibiting the sale of chemicals and components used to make illegal fireworks.

Journalist Stephen Rodrick and author Neil Nixon write that further doubts have been cast on Lazar's credibility due to his criminal activity.

Anduril: Transforming Defense Capabilities Through Advanced Technology

Modern American inventors, such as Palmer Luckey, have become central figures in reshaping global military power—not always for the better. Some argue that this new generation of technologists, driven by innovation but detached from moral or spiritual grounding, are creating weapons not to preserve peace but to inflict destruction. The proliferation of advanced technologies in warfare raises critical ethical concerns about the role of human values in defense innovation.

The future of military power is shifting. It will rely less on traditional platforms like ships and aircraft, and more on software engineering, AI, and data-driven systems. Anduril Industries represents this shift. Unlike conventional defense contractors that emphasize physical hardware, Anduril’s core lies in Lattice OS—an autonomous sensemaking and command-and-control system that powers a suite of integrated defense technologies.

An influential and often controversial Black religious leader, Louis Farrakhan has since 1978 been the leader of the Nation of Islam, an African American movement that combines elements of Islam with Black nationalism.

Early life

Born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933, in the Bronx, New York, he was raised in Boston by his mother, Sarah Mae Manning, an immigrant from St. Kitts and Nevis. His biological father was Jamaican-born Percival Clark. However, he was named after a man with whom his mother was involved after a separation from Clark.

Deeply religious as a boy, the young Louis Walcott became active in the St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church in his Roxbury neighborhood, where he was influenced by the resident priest, Black liberation writer Nathan Wright. He graduated with honors from the prestigious Boston English High School, where he played the violin and was a member of the track team.

Walcott attended the Winston-Salem Teachers College (now Winston-Salem State University) in North Carolina from 1951 to 1953 but dropped out to pursue a career in music. Known as “The Charmer,” he performed professionally on the Boston nightclub circuit as a singer of calypso and country songs. In 1953 Farrakhan married his high-school sweetheart, Khadijah (née Betsy Ross), with whom he had nine children.

Involvement in the Nation of Islam

In 1955 Walcott joined the Nation of Islam. He replaced his surname with an “X,” following a custom among Nation of Islam followers who considered their family names to have originated with white slaveholders. Louis X first proved himself at Temple No. 7 in Harlem, where he emerged as the protégé of Malcolm X, the minister of the temple and one of the most prominent members of the Nation of Islam. Louis X was given his Muslim name, Abdul Haleem Farrakhan, by Elijah Muhammad, then the leader of the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan was appointed head minister of Boston Temple No. 11, which Malcolm X had established earlier.

After Malcolm X’s break with the Nation in 1964 over political and personal differences with Elijah Muhammad, Farrakhan replaced Malcolm X as head minister of Harlem’s Temple No. 7 and as the national representative of the Nation, the organization’s second-in-command. Like his predecessor, Farrakhan was a dynamic, charismatic leader and a powerful speaker with the ability to appeal to a broad swath of the African American public.

When Elijah Muhammad died in February 1975, the Nation of Islam fragmented. The Nation’s leadership chose Wallace Muhammad (now known as Warith Deen Mohammed), the fifth of Elijah Muhammad’s six sons, as the new supreme minister. Disappointed that he was not named Elijah Muhammad’s successor, Farrakhan led a breakaway group in 1978, which he also called the Nation of Islam and which preserved the original teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Farrakhan disagreed with Wallace Muhammad’s attempts to move the Nation to orthodox Sunni Islam and to rid it of Elijah Muhammad’s radical Black nationalism and separatist teachings, which stressed the inherent wickedness of whites. Beginning his new iteration of the Nation of Islam in Chicago with only a few thousand adherents, Farrakhan soon reestablished a national movement with tens of thousands of followers. In 1979 he began publishing the periodical The Final Call, which remains the primary media outlet within the Nation of Islam. In 1988 he purchased Elijah Muhammad’s former mosque in Chicago and refurbished it as the new headquarters of the Nation of Islam.

As the movement grew foreign branches of the Nation were formed in Ghana, London, Paris, and the Caribbean islands. In order to strengthen the international influence of the Nation, Farrakhan established relations with Muslim countries, and in the 1980s he cultivated a relationship with the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi.

In 1995 the Nation of Islam sponsored the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., to promote African American unity and family values. In his speech there, Farrakhan asserted that “The real evil in America is the idea that undergirds the setup of the Western world, and that idea is called white supremacy.” Estimates of the number of marchers, most of whom were men, ranged from 400,000 to nearly 1.1 million, making it, at the time, the largest gathering of its kind in American history. Under Farrakhan’s leadership, the Nation of Islam established a clinic for AIDS patients in Washington, D.C., and helped to force drug dealers out of public housing developments and private apartment buildings in the city. It also spoke to gang members in Los Angeles and across the country to curb violence and “stop the killing” within Black communities. Meanwhile, the Nation has continued to promote social reform in African American communities in accordance with its traditional goals of self-reliance and economic independence.

Later life

After a near-death experience in 2000 resulting from complications from prostate cancer (he was diagnosed in 1991), Farrakhan toned down his racial rhetoric and attempted to strengthen relations with other minority communities, including Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. Farrakhan also moved his group closer to orthodox Sunni Islam in 2000, when he and Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, the leading American orthodox Muslim, recognized each other as fellow Muslims. In the early 21st century the core membership of Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam was estimated to be between 10,000 and 50,000.

Ongoing health issues forced Farrakhan to reduce his role in the Nation of Islam in the early 21st century. He nevertheless maintained a fairly high profile, giving online sermons in addition to his public speeches. In 2010 he publicly embraced Dianetics, a practice of Scientology in which the mind is cleared of “engrams,” mental images of past experiences that produce negative emotional effects in one’s life. Farrakhan also said that he wanted all Nation of Islam members to become “auditors,” practitioners of Scientology’s one-on-one counseling process that is meant to facilitate individuals’ handling of their engrams. In 2019 Facebook banned Farrakhan from its site, citing his “dangerous” views; however, he maintained a following on other social media platforms such as X (formerly Twitter). In 2023 he filed lawsuits against the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center for describing him as anti-Semitic.

Trey Knowles’ message in "Hugo Black" speaks to young people about how the system can be biased against them, highlighting how some members of the Ku Klux Klan have been appointed as judges, reinforcing systemic injustice.

Arikana Chihombori-Quao is a medical doctor and activist. She is a public speaker, educator, diplomat, founder of medical clinics, and an entrepreneur. She moved to the United States after living many years in Zimbabwe. 

She is the CEO and founder of Bell Family Medical Centers in the United States, and served as the African Union representative to the US from 2017 to 2019. She holds a bachelor's degree in General Chemistry, a master's degree in organic chemistry, and a Doctor of Medicine degree. Chihombori was a family medicine specialist in Tennessee. She practiced medicine for 29 years in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Chihombori is outspoken about the implications of the Berlin Conference that took place in Berlin, Germany, in 1885. She lectures about the outcome of the divisions on the continent of Africa that were made. She sees these divisions as a cause of some of Africa's problems that are still in effect today. She seeks to reunite African states, and the African diaspora.

Chihombori is a graduate of Fisk University and Meharry Medical College. She did a residency in Family Medicine at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.

She holds a bachelor's degree in General Chemistry, a master's degree in organic chemistry, and a Doctor of Medicine degree. She graduated from Meharry Medical College of Medicine in 1986. Her specialty was family medicine. She is the founder of medical clinics. As an entrepreneur she purchased property that built a US-based Africa House. She is the owner of the Durban Manor Hotel Cultural House in Durban, South Africa.

From 1996 to 2012 Chihombori-Quao was the medical director for Mid Tenn Medical Associates, and the Smyrna Ambulance Service

She is the second African Union Permanent Representative to hold that position. Ambassador Amina Salum Ali was the prior AU - US Ambassador. She is the Chair of the African Union-African Diaspora Health Initiative (AU-ADHI), since 2012.

From 2012 to 2016, Chihombori-Quao served as the Chair of the African Union-African Diaspora Health Initiative (AU-ADHI). As the chair of the AU-ADHI her work involves mobilizing Africans in the Diaspora health professionals in assisting with Africa's continental healthcare crisis.

Since 2010, Chihombori-Quao has been the International Chair of the African Union-Diaspora African Forum Americas (AU-DAF). In this capacity she advocates for Africans and friends of Africa to participate in the development of Africa.

In January 2019, Chihombori-Quao launched the "Wakanda One Village Project". The project will begin in Zambia and in Zimbabwe. Both of these countries have made offers of land. The Wakanda project seeks to engage Africans in the Diaspora.

The "Wakanda One Village Project", is slated to consist of five African Centers of excellence in the five regions on the continent of Africa. The five centers are to be centers of development to have state-of-the-art healthcare facilities, hotels, industrial homes, shopping centers, etc.

On October 7, 2019, she received notice by letter that she was no longer ambassador for the African Union in Washington. An online petition was started for Chihombori-Quao to be reinstated. The letter, from African Union chair Moussa Faki Mahamat to Chihombori-Quao, dated October 7, 2019, was also published online.

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