High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Black Scholar (TBS) –“one of the “leading journals of black culture and political thought in the United States"–was founded in 1969 by Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare. Now in its 43rd year of publication, it is produced under the editorial direction of Editor-in-Chief Laura Chrisman along with Senior Editors Robert L. Allen, Louis Chude-Sokei, and Sundiata Cha-Jua, and Executive Editor Maize Woodford. The NAACP’s Crisis and the Journal of Negro History (now known as the Journal of African American History) are the two black journals that have been publishing for a longer period of time.TBS is currently published quarterly by the Black World Foundation, an Oakland non-profit educational organization, in association with Paradigm Publishers in Boulder, Colorado.