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Dr. Umar Johnson (August 21st, 1974)is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist who practices privately throughout Pennsylvania and lectures throughout the world. Dr. Umar is a Pan-Africanist, Historian, political scientist, author and consultant to families, educators, mental health professionals and charter schools throughout the world. He is a blood relative of Frederick Douglass, the great Black Abolitionist and Orator.
CAREER Dr. Umar is former Minister of Education for the Marcus Garvey Movement, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Dr. Umar currently hosts a psycho-educational community lecture series at the African-American Museum in Philadelphia.
As a school psychologist, Dr. Umar evaluates children ages 3-21 in an effort to determine if they have educational disabilities and a need for special education services. Dr. Umar is considered a national expert on learning disabilities and their effect on Black children, as well an expert on helping schools and parents modify challenging behaviors that can ultimately lead to disruptive behavior disorder diagnoses in Black boys.
As a child therapist, Dr. Umar specializes in working with at-risk, violent, suicidal and depressed African-American boys and girls. For five years he served as the youngest of five African-American male school psychologists in the 5th largest public school district in America, The School District of Philadelphia. Dr. Umar has been featured on various Black talk shows, college campuses, workshops, conferences and panels in the United States and beyond.
In addition to his media appearances, Dr. Umar is a highly sought after motivational and informational speaker. He has lectured before embassies, stadiums, museums, schools, universities, churches, correctional facilities, community centers and international audiences. His speaking engagements vary in form from workshops, to expert panels throughout the country. He has and currently continues to travel the world, including his recent speaking engagements in London, Africa and Bermuda. Dr. Umar is considered an authority on the education of African-American children and on mental health in the Black community.
Dr. Umar is the Author of "Psych-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys" published 2013 http://www.drumarjohnson.com.
In 2011, Dr. Umar was featured in Hidden Colors: The Untold History Of People Of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent, and Hidden Colors 2: The Triumph of Melanin. Hidden Colors is a documentary film by producer and New York Times best selling author Tariq Nasheed. Both documentaries are about the real and untold history of people of color around the globe.