Ray Winbush

Director - Institute for Urban Affairs Morgan State University

Raymond A. Winbush is the Benjamin Hooks Professor of Social Justice at Fisk University and Director of the University’s Race Relations Institute. He is the former Assistant Provost and Director of the Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University.

A native of Cleveland Ohio, Dr. Winbush, is a product of public school education, K through 12. In 1970, he graduated with honors in psychology from Oakwood College in Huntsville Alabama, and during his undergraduate education there, won scholarships to both Harvard and Yale Universities. After graduation he won a fellowship to the University of Chicago and received both his Masters and Ph.D. in psychology in 1973 and 1976 respectively.

From 1973 to 1980, Dr. Winbush taught at Oakwood College and Alabama

A & M University in Huntsville before coming to Vanderbilt University in the fall of that year. At Vanderbilt he was Assistant Provost of the university, held an adjunct professorship in the Department of Psychology and was Associate Professor of Human Resource Development at Peabody College and.  His research interests include:

• infusing African American studies into school curricula
• African American adolescent development
• Black male and female relationships
• the influence of hip hop on contemporary American culture

Dr. Winbush is the author of numerous articles on the "politics" of Afrocentricity and the resistance it encounters among scholars who wish to maintain existing intellectual paradigms. 

Books authored and/or edited Raymond A. Winbush:

The Warrior Method: A Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys, (Harper Collins, 2001), is a comprehensive African-centered program for rearing Black boys in a racist society.
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Should America Pay? - The Raging Debate on Reparations, (Harper Collins, 2007), Whether you are for or against reparations, Should America Pay? is the definitive sourcebook for future discussions on the subject and is invaluable to anyone looking for historical and legal insight into one of America's most urgent and passionate debates.

A five-year $2.6 million grant from the Kellogg Foundation revitalized the historic Race Relations Institute at Fisk University. The 32nd Institute was held July 6-12, 1998 at Fisk with 250 attendees including:

Actor James Earl Jones
Daughter of Richard Wright
Daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Son of Kwame Nkrumah
Son of W. E. B. Du Bois
Son of Marcus Garvey
Dr. John Hope Franklin
Congressman John Conyers
Rap star Chuck D and other members of the hip-hop community
Psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

The Race Relations Institute is the only institute of its kind housed at an Historically Black College/University [HBCU].

Ray Winbush's consultations are numerous:

He sits on the Executive Board of the National Council for Black Studies. 
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He is former President of the Southern Region of the Association of Black Culture Centers
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He has consulted widely with organizations ranging from the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, National Research Council, the Ford Foundation, Illinois Power Corporation and several American universities. 

His travels include Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, France, England, Belgium, Honduras, Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire and Jamaica, where he seeks to understand how African people have influenced world culture. He has made appearances on the CBS Morning Show and Black Entertainment Television [BET].

His hobbies include, writing, jazz, rap music, Information Technology and photography and he is the proud father of three (3) children: Omari Winbush, Sharifa Winbush and Faraji Winbush.