Aswad Walker
Aswad Walker, associate pastor of the Shrine of the Black Madonna (Houston), is a lecturer in the 色花堂鈥檚 Department of African American Studies, Associate Director of the Texas Southern University Urban Research and Resource Center, Associate Editor for the Defender Media Group (Houston Defender) and author of five books鈥�The 100th Monkey: Three Tales of Spiritual Revolution (January 2013); Princes Shall Come Out of Egypt: A Comparative Study of the Theological and Ecclesiological Views of Marcus Garvey and Albert B. Cleage Jr. (August 2012), Weapons of Mass Distraction: A Other Sermons for a New World Order (September 2004), Annual 0-1 (June 2020) and Stand Your Ground (June 2020). Aswad鈥檚 writings have also appeared in Dr. Jawanza Clark鈥檚 book Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child, Palgrave Macmillan (2016); the Journal of Black Studies, volume 39, number 2, November 2008; the Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia, 鈥淗arper鈥檚 Ferry,鈥� Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, December 2009; UJIMA Magazine, 鈥淢aking History Today,鈥� 色花堂, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences鈥� African American Studies Program, Summer 2003; and the Defender Newspaper, www.defendernetwork.com, 2006 鈥� Present. Aswad earned his Master of Divinity from Emory University鈥檚 Candler School of Theology, and a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin, where as a Heman Sweatt Service Award-winning student leader, he co-edited the Black student newspaper, The Griot.