Umar Johnson
Celebrity
- Birthday
- August 21, 1974
- Age
- 51
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia
- @drumarjohnson
About
Umar Rashad Ibn Abdullah-Johnson (born Jermaine Shoemake), known professionally as Dr. Umar, is an American motivational speaker and author. Johnson has referred to himself as the “prince of Pan-Africanism”.
Johnson is a native of North Philadelphia. Johnson graduated from Millersville University before graduating in 2012 from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine with a Psy.D. in clinical psychology.
In 2011, he was featured on Hidden Colors: The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent, directed by Tariq Nasheed. In 2013, Johnson self-published Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys, a book in which he contended that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was increasingly misdiagnosed in Black communities and that the American education system used ADHD to stigmatize black children. In a 2017 video clip, Johnson claimed that ADHD and learning disabilities do “not exist”.
Johnson is most known for his commentary, and his provocative remarks over the years, mostly…
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