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Omowale Akintunde

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Omowale Achebe Akintunde is an African-American academic, film director, and author with an interest in the areas of education, race, and diversity. He is a former chairman of the Department of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and won a regional Emmy award for his short documentary An Inaugural Ride to Freedom.

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