Umar Johnson

Umar Rashad Ibn Abdullah-Johnson (born Jermaine Shoemake; August 21, 1974) is an American motivational speaker,Ali Swenson, Clip of Fox host is altered to add motivational speaker, Associated Press (August 30, 2022). psychologist, activist, and social media personality who focuses on Pan-Africanism. His stepmother, Bernice Elizabeth Dockins Abdullah-Johnson, was a preschool teacher and his father had his name changed. Johnson attended the Duckery and Meade Elementary Schools in his native North Philadelphia community. Afterwards, he attended the former Beeber Junior High School where he was enrolled in an academically gifted program called Start Now. After graduating from Beeber in 1988, Johnson's father had him enrolled at the Scotland School for Veterans' Children. He graduated in June 1992. In 1992, Johnson enrolled in Millersville University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1997 with two Bachelors of Arts and Science degrees in psychology and political science. In 2012, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as a Doctor of Psychology. In 2011, he was featured on The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent, directed by Tariq Nasheed. In 2013, Johnson published Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys, a book in which he contended that ADHD was increasingly misdiagnosed in the Black community and that the education system used ADHD to stigmatize black children. In a 2017 video clip, Johnson asserted that "ADHD does not exist. Neither does the learning disability." In June 2014, Johnson said he would raise $5 million to buy the former campus of Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia, which had closed down in 2013 due to financial struggles, and rename it to Frederick Douglass Marcus Garvey Academy, which he said would be a boarding school for Black boys. He claimed to have sufficient funds to buy the Saint Paul's site in 2014, but did not do so. In 2015, Johnson claimed that he would open the school in 2016.