As Professor Alkalimat provides a few opening thoughts to his recently published, The Future of Black Studies, he writes “The future we need is the opposite of dystopia. We need a positive future. To understand the struggles of Black people, and how Black people have been able to celebrate life even under harsh conditions, we have to seek and evaluate the positive influence of Black Studies. Specifically, Black Studies prepares a diagnosis of the present-past, while seeking a perspective and policies to improve the quality of life in the present-future. This is a recognition that the past and the future are intimately connected to the present—all the dynamics of a dialectical process” [4]. Professor Alkalimat goes on to write, “Black Studies is an educational context for such imagination, both about society and about Black Studies itself. People in Black Studies do not separate the two. The future of the academic discipline is inseparable from the future of society and the institutions of education that house Black Studies. This is what this volume seeks to explore: the future of Black Studies in the context of the future of society” [5]. Today, we explore the ideas, arguments, and concepts of the Future of Black Studies with Professor Abdul Alkalimat. Abdul Alkalimat is a founder of the field of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar-organizer with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has lectured, taught, and directed academic programs across the U.S., the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and China. His academic-organizing trajectory stems, as former chair of the Chicago chapter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s to a prominent actor in the African Liberation Support Movement to being a co-founder of the Black Radical Congress in 1998. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the Native/Indigenous, African, and Afro Descendant communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; Ghana, Ayiti, and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all peoples! Listen intently. Think critically. Act accordingly. Enjoy the program!