Robert Chrisman, Editor-in-Chief
Robert Allen, Senior Editor
Maize Woodford, Executive Editor
Contact at Paradigm Publishers, Jason Barry
Founded in 1969 and hailed by The New York Times as “a journal in which the writings of many of today’s finest black thinkers may be viewed,” THE BLACK SCHOLAR has firmly established itself as the leading journal of black cultural and political thought in the United States and remains under the editorship of Robert Chrisman, Editor-In-Chief, Robert Allen, Senior Editor, and Maize Woodford, Executive Editor.
In its pages African American studies intellectuals, community activists, and national and international political leaders come to grips with basic issues confronting black America and Africa.
Among its contributors have been Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Julian Bond, Shirley Chisholm, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), June Jordan, Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Julianne Malveaux, Andrew Billingsley, Audre Lorde, Max Roach, Nelson Mandela, C.L.R. James, Julius Nyerere, Barbara Smith, Sekou Toure, Johnnetta B. Cole, Herb Boyd, Nancy Morejon, Chuck Stone, Beverly Guy-Sheftal, David L Smith, Jayne Cortez, Ronald Walters, Hortense Spillers, Robert Staples, Joy James. Derrick Bell, Maya Angelou, Clayborne Carson, Alice Walker, and many, many more.he Journal of Applied Social Science is the official, peer-refereed journal of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS). Featuring new research articles by noted scholars, it is the only scholarly journal specifically devoted to the application of sociological research to real world problems and conflicts.
Paradigm Publishers now collaborates with the editors for distribution of The Black Scholar.