Dr. Amos N. Wilson

One of the world's greatest Black psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers, Dr. Amos N. Wilson was a former social worker, supervising probation officer, psychological counselor, psychiatrist, and administrator for the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York. 

In addition to his teaching at CUNY, Dr. Wilson taught, mentored, and trained hundreds of people in the greater New York City area, and across the East Coast of the United States. He pioneered the teaching of healing, psychology, psychiatry, and trauma-informed care from the point of view of Black people at such institutions as the College of New Rochelle, the New York Institute of Technology, Medgar Evers College, the South Baltimore Learning Center, and the Armstrong School of Adult Education in Washington, D.C. At the latter two institutions, he taught Wisdom Projects' Executive Director in a first-of-it's-kind certificate program in trauma-informed care in the summer of 1991.

He earned his higher education at three institutions: a bachelor's degree at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, a master's degree at The New School for Social Research in New York, and a Ph.D. in Psychology and Family Psychiatry from Fordham University in New York.

Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1941, Dr. Wilson was often called Brother Amos by his students and mentees. He traveled the country speaking at presentations on the behalf of the First World Alliance, the Afrikan Poetry Theatre, Afrikan Echoes, House of Our Lord Church, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, the Slave Theatre and CEMOTAP to name just a few. His travels took him throughout the United States, to Canada, as well West Africa, and the Caribbean.

Dr. Wilson's activities transcended academia into the field of business, owning and operating various enterprises in the greater New York area.

A prolific writer and researcher, he was only 53 when he suffered a heart attack at home and was rushed to a local hospital in Brooklyn, NY, where he later died on Saturday January 14, 1995. Dr. Wilson is survived by his son (who lives a private life), Raheem Wilson.

The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child (United Brothers Communications Systems, Inc. 1978; Afrikan World Infosystems (2nd Edition) 2014).

Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination (Afrikan World Infosystems 1990).

Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence: Its Remediation and Prevention (Afrikan World Infosystems 1992).

Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children (Afrikan World Infosystems 1992).

The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy (Afrikan World Infosystems 1993).

Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century (Afrikan World Infosystems 1998).

Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism (Afrikan World Infosystems 1999).

The Psychology of Self-Hatred and Self-Defeat: Towards a Reclamation of the Afrikan Mind (Afrikan World InfoSystems 2020).

Issues of Manhood in Black and White: An Incisive Look at Masculinity and the Societal Definition of Afrikan Man (Afrikan World Infosystems 2016).