Dr. Omekongo Dibinga's life has been devoted to challenging bias and smashing stereotypes for over 30 years since first getting involved as a community activist. Dr. Dibinga is Senior Professorial Lecturer of Intercultural Communication at American University. He is an award-winning poet and a world renown professional speaker working with corporations and school districts across the country on leveraging diversity. His undergraduate and doctoral work has centered around issues facing the Black community not only in American but across the globe, which has led Dr. Dibinga to live and work in almost 30 countries. Dr. Dibinga earned his Ph.D. in International Education Policy at The University of Maryland (UMD) where his dissertation centered on post-Civil Rights Era Black youth. He also worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Teaching Diverse Students Initiative" and provides leadership, educational and diversity empowerment as a consultant and motivational speaker for organizations, associations, and institutions around the world. Omekongo lives in Washington, DC.
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"Dr. Dibinga is his generation's Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Lies About Black People makes a global impact and rises above the banalities of lies and racist platitudes that have existed for centuries. I predict it will be read and studied for generations to come." - Joe Madison, "The Black Eagle" on SiriusXM Urban View "Lies About Black People exposes the myths and stereotypes about how black people are viewed and judged, and it offers the realities and the raw truths that we all must face if we are to ever overcome racism and achieve inclusion, equity, and justice. I recommend it for all cultures, ethnicities, and nationalities, and I certainly plan to use it in my consulting practice as a roadmap for reconciliation and reckoning with the complexities of race." - Dr. Shirley Davis, author of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Dummies "Without blame and with buckets of positivity, Dibinga exhorts his audience to work on understanding their own biases and to combat resurgent racism using his concrete strategies....Brimming with historical and contemporary examples, Lies about Black People is an illuminating, persuasive overview of the ways racism harms Black Americans and poisons the country's culture and economic health." --Rachel Jagareski, Foreword Reviews