Hasan Kwame Jeffries
US professor of history
Hasan Kwame Jeffries (born January 13, 1973) is a history professor and author at Ohio State University. He is the younger brother of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the U.S. House Minority Leader. He is the nephew of Leonard Jeffries, a former political science professor at City College of New York.
Early life and education
He was born in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City and graduated summa cum laude from Morehouse College with a B.A. degree in history in 1994. He became a member of the Pi chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He received a Ph.D. in American history with a specialization in African American history from Duke University in 2002.
Career
He taught for a year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa before joining Ohio State's faculty in 2003. His profile page also states he was the lead historian and primary scriptwriter for the $27 million renovation of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, from 2010 to 2014 and worked on the PBS documentary Black America Since MLK. He hosts a podcast called "Teaching Hard History" for the Southern Poverty Law Center's educational division, Teaching Tolerance.
He was interviewed by NPR about how history is taught in American schools. He has appeared on C-SPAN several times.
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