Challenging the Black Hole Theory: An African American Roadmap for the Journey from Here to Eternity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499122961)

John Elliott Churchville, Ph.D., J.D., CLU, ChFC is an author, scholar-activist, educator, leadership coach, African Liberation theologian and attorney. He is Chairman & CEO of Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation, a principal in The Churchville Triad Group, LLC, and a Fellow at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies. Because of his innovative community organizing work in Southwest Georgia, the Mississippi Delta and Philadelphia, PA, from the 1960s to the present, John was chosen to be videographed for the joint Civil Rights History Project of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution. His 21/2 hour interview has been archived at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC and the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. His experience and background include: civil rights voter registration work in the South in the early 1960s; creating and head-mastering an independent school for African American inner-city youth from the early 1960s until the late 1970s; functioning as the director of a national criminal justice program and fundraiser for an international charitable organization from the late 1970s to the early 1980s; developing a financial services, insurance and securities brokerage firm and Registered Investment Advisory service from the early to late-1980s; serving as a farm-workers' rights, criminal defense, Elderlaw, estate planning and corporate affairs attorney throughout the 1990s; functioning as an environmental and social justice advocate and leadership/organizational development and strategic planning consultant since 2004. John received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services Administration from Antioch University and his law degree from Rutgers School of Law. He received his theological training at Lutheran Theological Seminary, and received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Canterbury University.