Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Ivan Van Sertima

Born: January 26, 1935
Died: May 25, 2009 (aged 74)
Bio: Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.
Known for:
- They came before Columbus (1976)
- The Golden Age of the Moor (1992)
- African Presence in Early Europe (1985)
- Egypt Revisited (1982)
- Early America revisited (1998)