No One Can Be At Peace Unless They Have Freedom: Essays | Poems|Thoughts | Lessons

Michael Simanga is an activist poet, novelist, essayist, producer, historian, scholar, educator and cultural worker. He grew up in Detroit and lives in Atlanta with his wife, poet Lita Hooper, their children and grandchildren. He teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University.

Professor Madhubuti founded Third World Press in 1967. He is a founder of the Institute of Positive Education/New Concept School (1969), and a co-founder of Betty Shabazz International Charter School (1998), Barbara A. Sizemore Middle School (2005), and DuSable Leadership Academy (2005). Professor Madhubuti is an award-winning poet and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, the American Book Award, an Illinois Arts Council Award, the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award and others. In 2014, Dr. Madhubuti received the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award presented by Poets & Writers Magazine. In 2015, Madhubuti was the first poet to receive a Life Time Achievement Award at the Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium at the Library of Congress; and he was honored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in the Fine Arts and he received the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.