We have created this page because the main focus of Ikologiks Center for Global Studies is the celebration of "Life" or "Ankh Consciousness."  
We inner-stand that those that depart from this plain of consciousness due to illness, accident or old age have not really departed.
The ancestors remain always with us in our hearts and minds, until the day comes when we join them in the transition.
These pages will celebrate the lives of those leaving us since 2005, and beyond, rather than throughout history.  
    The Message by Adisaji  on the Life & Times of
    Brother James Forman

    I just recently learned about the loss of our dear brother, comrade and soldier of
    struggle. I have always felt a deep spiritual bond and connection to Brother James
    Forman.

    It started in the spring of 1969, I had just celebrated my 14th birthday living in the Bronx,
    NY  when my 8th grade social studies teacher (Ms. Plesa) at John Phillip Sousa, JHS
    wanted to take her specially gifted students on a class trip before the end of the
    academic year. She was (white woman) a follower of Rev. Billy Grahman and wanted to
    take us to a Sunday service at the historic Riverside Church, NY. By some act of
    providence, I and the four other classmates who accompanied her that day, were sitting
    in the pews when Brother Forman and about twenty other activists entered dramatically
    into the church to deliver the historic "Black Manifesto" -- a call for black reparations.
    No event in my youth, other than the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Medger Evers,
    Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.,  have ever had a more lasting affect on my young
    adult life or imprinted itself into my consciousness more than this special moment in
    1969.

    Later, in 1973 when I entered Cornell University, I found to my surprise that I would
    actually meet Brother Forman. One day while I was walking on campus and had learned
    he was studying for a degree at the AS&RC at CU when I saw he strolling past the then
    Statler Inn Hotel on campus. I introduced myself and told him about my experience back
    in 1969. Later, I would interview for WHCU-FM radio and the tape still exists in the
    archives of the African Studies & Research Center at Cornell University.

    Soon after leaving Cornell I started working in Atlanta, GA and was volunteering at the
    Institute of the Black World. To my shock, one day I again met Brother Forman who was
    staying in Atlanta at the time in front of the IBW headquarters. We can talked.

    The last time I connected with Brother James was briefly in the 1980's and then one last
    time in the early 90's when I was living in Washington, DC.

    But, each time we met, he was always so kind and gentle with me almost like the
    farther I never knew. I always felt the deep LOVE and concern he had for our people and
    he even warned me about being careful in the struggle.My only regret is that I was
    unable to say farewell in person to someone I have always considered a "father figure"
    in my life in terms of the "struggle". May he R.I.P.

    MAY GOD GRANT HIM COMFORT AND THE ANCESTORS WELCOME HIM
    HOME!
    Adisa Maina Omar (Adisaji),
    International Academy of Ikologiks and Advanced Studies, Inc. (formerly)
James Forman
1928 - 2005
(Left) Recent Photo of James Forman
(right) 1969 at Riverside Church, NY when Forman read the
'Black Manifesto' calling for Reparations for slavery.
James Forman was born in Chicago on 4th October, 1928.
After high school he entered the United States Air-force and fought in the
Korean War. When he returned to the United States he studied at
Roosevelt University, graduating in 1957.

Forman worked for the Chicago Defender and reported on the civil rights
struggle in the Deep South. He joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) and in 1961 was appointed as its executive secretary.
In this post Forman controversially began to demand that the African
American people should be given $500 million in reparations for the
injustices of slavery, racism and capitalism.

Forman served as president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action
Council (UPAC) before returning to his academic studies, receiving a M.A.
from Cornell University (1980) and his Ph.D from the Union Institute (1981).
Foreman has also written several books including Sammy Young Jr.: The
First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement (1968),
The Political Thought of James Forman (1970), The Makings of Black
Revolutionaries (1972) and Self-Determination (1985).
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