Abdul Alkalimat
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| Born | Gerald Arthur McWorter November 21, 1942 |
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| Employer | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Notable work | Introduction to Afro-American Studies: A Peoples College Primer (1984); The History of Black Studies (2021) |
| Relatives | Free Frank McWorter (great-great-grandfather) |
| Website | alkalimat |
Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942) is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the author of several books, including Introduction to Afro-American Studies (1984), The African American Experience in Cyberspace (2004), Malcolm X for Beginners (1990), and The History of Black Studies (2021). He curates two websites related to African-American history, "Malcolm X: A Research Site" and "eBlack Studies".
Alkalimat is the great-great-grandson of Free Frank McWorter.