Dr. T. Hasan Johnson is Full Professor in Africana Studies at California State University, Fresno. He earned his doctorate at Claremont Graduate University, his M.A. at Temple University, and his B.A. at California State University, Dominguez Hills. 
He founded numerous Fresno State programs including the Africana Studies Online Teleconference on Black Male Studies, the ONYX Black Male Film Festival, The Black Popular Culture Lecture Series and Online Research Archive (curator), The ONYX Black Male Collective, The Annual ASHÉ: Sankofa Black Film Festival, The Annual Africana Studies Black Gender Conference, the Africana Studies Black Elder Project, The Hip-Hop Research & Interview Project, the Black Male Studies blog at: www.NewBlackMasculinities.wordpress.com, and the (online) Institute for Black Male Studies. Finally, in 2019, he created The Onyx Report on both YouTube and Inner Light Radio.
He was also part of the founding team for The African American Edge Initiative and the development of both the Annual Harambee Retreat and the Office of Black Student Success at California State University, Fresno.