Robert L. Allen
American activist, writer, and academic (1942–2024) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Lee Allen (May 29, 1942 – July 10, 2024) was an American activist, writer, and adjunct professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] Allen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, and previously taught at San José State University and Mills College. He was Senior Editor (with Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Robert Chrisman) of The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research,[2] published quarterly or more frequently in Oakland, California, by the Black World Foundation since 1969.
In the 1980s, he co-founded with Alice Walker the publishing company called Wild Trees Press,[3] publishing the work of Third World writers.[4]
Allen married Pam Allen in 1965.[5] He died on July 10, 2024, at the age of 82.[6]