Abdul Alkalimat

Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942) is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the author of several books, including ''Introduction to Afro-American Studies'' (1984), ''The African American Experience in Cyberspace'' (2004), ''Malcolm X for Beginners'' (1990), and ''The History of Black Studies'' (2021). He curates two websites related to African-American history, "Malcolm X: A Research Site" and "eBlack Studies".

Alkalimat is the great-great-grandson of Free Frank McWorter. Provided by Wikipedia