DR.Umar Johnson Unveils & Installs Sign & Logo For His FDMG Academy

Dr. Umar Johnson Officially Installed The Signage & Logo For His Soon To Be FDMG Academy in Delaware.

Despite negative criticism and backlash from those in his own community,  Umar has steadily moved forward in his efforts to open an All Black Academy that among other standard curriculums, focuses specifically on black family, pride self love and African Ancestral values.

In the video he explains the sign as well as  installation and construction of the school and a proposed timeline of opening.

Who is Dr. Umar?

In 2011, he was featured on The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent, directed by Tariq Nasheed. In 2013, Johnson published Psycho-Academic Holocaust:

The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys, a book in which he contended that ADHD was increasingly misdiagnosed in the Black community and that the education system used ADHD to stigmatize black children.

In a 2017 video clip, Johnson asserted that “ADHD does not exist. Neither does the learning disability.”

In June 2014, Johnson said he would raise $5 million to buy the former campus of Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Virginia, which had closed down in 2013 due to financial struggles, and rename it to Frederick Douglass Marcus Garvey Academy, which he said would be a boarding school for Black boys.

He claimed to have sufficient funds to buy the Saint Paul’s site in 2014, but did not do so. In 2015, Johnson claimed that he would open the school the following year.

Charing Ball, writing in the online magazine MadameNoire, discouraged donations for the project, citing Johnson’s “homophobic and misogynistic” commentary in YouTube videos.

In 2015, he opened a GoFundMe to raise money to “acquire and rehabilitate” either the former Saint Paul’s or at Chamberlain-Hunt Academy in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

In 2017, The Root criticized Johnson for failing to providing financial documentation demonstrating whether he actually used any of the funds for the school.

Although Johnson claimed to have applied for 501(c) ( tax-exempt nonprofit status in 2015, there was no record of an application with the IRS as of 2017.

In 2019, a Root commentator criticized Johnson for never providing a business plan, obtaining a license, publishing receipts, or taking other steps toward construction of the school, despite Johnson’s claim in 2017 Johnson to have raised $400,000[10] or $700,000 for the school.

In April 2021, Johnson stated that the school had completed construction but was not ready for classes.

Despite it all Dr. Umar has continued to move forward with the projest and the installation of the sign proves the old adage correct. as his “Actions speak louder than words”.

Abe Finklestein