I went to a few lectures back in the day. I was convinced then that it should be required reading to all high-school students

I took classes with Van Sertima when I was at Rutgers. He would not have suffered fools like Johnson lightly.

What he was looking for was “They Came before Columbus” by Ivan Van Sertima. A well-thought, thoroughly researched book that documents the travel of Africans to what would become America (and other continents) prior to European understanding that the world was not flat. Or just in the cold ass caves that they…