Dr. William Loren Katz was the author of Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage and 40 other books on African American history. His books have won awards and his research, writing, and lectures have earned widespread praise from noted scholars such as John Hope Franklin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., John Henrik Clarke, Howard Zinn, James M. McPherson, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Ivan Van Sertima, Betty Shabazz, and Dr. Ralph Bunche. He was an acclaimed lecturer who spoke at more than 50 universities and dozens of museums and libraries. Katz published “Freedom Fighters Before Emancipation” in Counterpunch in January 2016 and in March of 2016 he participated in the panel “Understanding the Role of National Identity in Global Politics,” which sought to “expand UN discourses seeking to uncover the hidden history of African, Indigenous and Black Indian descendants of colonialism and enslavement in the United States,” with the United States Sustainable Development Corporation (USSDC), the United Nations NGO. Please click here to watch Dr. Katz’s interview with SPOHP’s director Dr. Paul Ortiz.