Nathan Hare, the founder of The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies and Research and called by many scholars “the father of Black and Ethnic Studies,” was born on April 9, 1933, in Slick, Oklahoma, to Seddie H. Hare, a sharecropper from Arkansas, and Tishia Lee Hare, a housekeeper. After his parents divorced, however, his mother took her children, Nathan Hare, Mildred Hare, Lieutenant C. Hare, Orgi Lee Lewis, and Ida Mae Lewis, to San Diego, California. In 1967, Hare left Howard and began serving as the Black Studies program coordinator at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University). Dr. Nathan Hare died on June 10, 2024, in San Francisco. He was 91 and left behind a body of scholarship and Africana Studies at SFSU, which began as Black Studies.

Source: New York Times July 01, 2024 21:22 UTC