Dr. Samuel T. Livingston is an African-centered researcher of Black culture, Diasporic liberation movements and an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Morehouse College. He is a Gullah native from the North Santee Community of Georgetown, South Carolina who earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies at Temple University (1998). Combining research and service learning, he teaches a range of courses including, Introduction to Africana Studies, Africana Studies Theory, Black Liberation Movements, and The Black Aesthetic of Hip Hop. He is also engaged in the design and research of the Global Africana Ethical Text Digital Mapping project, which traces African social justice thinking from its Ancient African Roots to the Black Lives Matter Movement. His recent publications include the essays, “The African Freedmen of San Miguel de Gualdape: Mapping the Chicora Lowcountry Foundations of African American History and Culture, 1520–1526” (Journal of the African American Historical and Genealogical Society, 2019) and “An Unbroken Bond: The Place of Africa in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Liberation Thought and Praxis” (The Compass: Journal of the ASCAC, 2017). Two book projects are under revision, including the “Centering 1526: Africana Studies and the Gullah-Geechee Origins of African American History and Culture,” and “A Black Forge of Freedom: African-centered Ethical Thought and the Foundations of Diasporic Liberation Movements.” A dedicated scholar-activist, Livingston serves with the Atlanta chapter of Friends of the Congo, an organization working for justice in and just policies toward the Democratic Republic of the Congo and all of Africa.