Akubundu Amazu-Lott As a youth living in Los Angeles, CA, experienced first hand being profiled by the police. On at least a half-dozen occasions he was pulled over at gunpoint by the LAPD. This experience contributed to his understanding that African people in America were treated as second-class citizens.  He made his way out of Los Angeles to San Jose State University. There he participated in sports (football) and received his B.S. in Business Administration and his Master of Urban Planning. As an undergraduate student-athlete, he experienced racism on the field and in the classroom.  His resolve to change the situation of African People in particular and humanity, in general, lead him to join several progressive organizations including the Black Student Union (SJSU) and the Pan African Student Collective. He was introduced to and joined the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) in 1979 and is currently a member of the Central Committee. In 1993, he was part of an A-APRP delegation that joined the late Kwame Ture in Guinea. There they met with a cadre of the People’s Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) and strategized to build the A-APRP.  He has been an adjunct professor at San Jose State University for the past eight years in the African-American Studies Department. He has lead groups of students to Haiti, Belize and most recently Cuba to meet with grassroots organizations. It is through his extensive work and study of Pan-Africanism and the struggles of oppressed people globally that he remains motivated to work for positive change.