ABIODUN OYEWOLE, a founding member of The Last Poets, is the editor of Black Lives Have Always Mattered (2017), author of The Beauty of Being (2018) and the poetry collection, Branches of the Tree Of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 (2014), and is the co-author of On A Mission: Selected Poems and A History Of The Last Poets (1996). He received his BS in biology and BA in communications at Shaw University, an MA in education at Columbia University, and is a Columbia Charles H. Revson Fellow (1989).