Jabari Asim is an American author, poet, and playwright who teaches writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston. He is the former editor-in-chief of The Crisis, the NAACP's magazine of politics, ideas and culture, and in 2019 he became the college's inaugural Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow. His books include A Child's Introduction to African American History, which traces the people and events that shaped the nation, and Preaching to the Chickens, a biography of young John Lewis.
