DW Duke

DW Duke was born and raised in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He received his Bachelor of Arts with a double major in economics and psychology from the University of Michigan and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. Today he is a Los Angeles attorney, author, and lecturer extensively involved in human rights in the Middle East. He is an accomplished musician and holds a fifth-degree black belt in Taekwondo and a sixth degree black belt in Jidokwan conferred by The World Taekwondo Federation in Seoul, Korea.

An author of nine books, DW recently released Because I'm Black, the Story of Jesse Washington, which is inspired by a true story about a young Black man who was tried for murder in Waco, Texas in 1916. DW's latest work In Search of the Golden Chalice: The Untold Story, tells of three young warriors, who, in 1617, led an attack against a European military to drive the Atlantic Slave Trade from West Africa, in a war that became known as the Great Battle to Free the Slaves.