Scholar. Organizer. Keeper of the Black Studies legacy.

Oba T’Shaka is a scholar-activist, author, and Professor Emeritus in Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. His work connects the history of Black Studies, African-centered education, and community organizing—insisting that knowledge must serve the people it comes from.

This portrait honors a teacher whose public work has helped document the struggle that established Black Studies at San Francisco State and whose organizing has kept the questions of identity, self-determination, and African unity in motion. It is made for everyone who understands that education is not neutral and history belongs in the hands of the people.

Wear the legacy. Study the struggle. Build what comes next. Wear Your Politics. Honor Your Roots.