The occupational career of Dr. Alexander includes a private practive as a Clinical Educational Ethno-Urbanologist, specializing in the study of pedagogical and human resources development of African and African Americans. In addition, he has worked as a college professor, is an ordained baptist minister, a freelance ethno-journalist for the New Journal and Guide, and a Garveyite ethno-historian. Presently, Dr. Alexander serves as a Senior Pedagogical Specialist as the Carter G. Woodson Education Center in Chesapeake, Virginia. The Center, founded by his wife, Barbara E. Alexander during the summer of 1988, is the only African-centered educational institution in the state of Virginia offering instruction for African children and their parents.

Dr. Alexander is a diplomate of the International Institute of Community Services (F.I.I.C.S.) in Cambridge, England. In 1985, he was one of 25 intellectuals selected as a Fellow for the Coolidge Research Colloquium at the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Massachusetts "to explore the relation of their religious commitment to their intellectual work." Later, in 1988, he published his eleventh work entitled The African Foundations of Judaisim and Christianity as a result of his seminal research as a Coolidge Fellow.

In pursuit of academic excellence, Dr. Alexander earned an A.B. degree in Sociology/Social Sciences from Virginia State College (Norfolk Division), an M.S.ED. from Bank Street Graduate School of Education, an Ed.M. and Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University where he was inducted into Pi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education. He holds a certificate in Introduction to African Studies from the University of Ghana in Legion and a certificate in Teaching Writing Across the Humanities from Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Also, he has done further research in the areas of international education and religion in the Soviet Union, London, Grenada, Bermuda, Martinique, Jamiaca, and at schools such as the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, the Columbia University School of Social Work, the University of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), the University of Nairobi (Kenya), and Makerere University in Uganda.

As a lecturer, Dr. Alexander has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities that include the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, City College and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Mercy College, Cornell University, U.C.L.A., Temple University, The Community College of Philadelphia, Duke University, St. Augustine College, North Carolina A&T University, Hampton Institute, The University of Virginia, and Howard University. He has been a symposium participant and has delivered papers all over 70 major conferences and conventions such as; The African Studies Association, Association for the sutdy of Afro-American Life and History, African Heritage Studies Association, African Literature Assocation, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, National Council of Black Studies and North American Christian-Marxist Dialogue.

In 1987, Dr. Alexander was selected to server as a member of the Children's Services Task Force of the American Library Association Ethnic Materials Information Exchange Roundtable. As a task force member, he wrote the chapter of African children's literature for a book published by the American Library Association.

Since the Spring of 1989, Dr. Alexander has serverd as a Field Reader Consultant for the United States Department of Education. In addition, during the summer of 1989, Dr. Alexander went of a research/study tour of Egypt.

In July of 1995, Dr. Alexander celebrated 29 years of marriage and the 4th birthday of his first grandchild, Nandi Assata Alexander. He is a proud father of Edward "Kwame" Alexander and father-in-law of Nia Alexander; both are graduates of Virginia Polytechnical and State University. His oldest daughter Sia, graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Howard University in 1992. Nataki is a twenty-one year old English major at Virginia State University. Ade Kwaku is a seventeen year old high school student.

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