About

<need a photo from childhood?> A native of Newark, New Jersey and a graduate of its tough and mean streets, Charles has pursued truth and justice for most of his life. He fought for the rights of African American students in high school, later he fought for social justice as a member of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and NAACP, and after receiving a doctoral degree from Harvard, he spent over three decades campaigned for human and civil rights in Africa, the Middle East and America. Charles is perhaps best known for having risked his life to help redeem hundreds of African slaves from bondage in Sudan.