Dr. T. Hasan Johnson is Full Professor in Africana Studies at California State University, Fresno. He earned his doctorate at Claremont Graduate University, his M.A. at Temple University, and his B.A. at California State University, Dominguez Hills. 

He founded numerous Fresno State programs including the Africana Studies Online Teleconference on Black Male Studies, the ONYX Black Male Film Festival, The Black Popular Culture Lecture Series and Online Research Archive (curator), The ONYX Black Male Collective, The Annual ASHÉ: Sankofa Black Film Festival, The Annual Africana Studies Black Gender Conference, the Africana Studies Black Elder Project, The Hip-Hop Research & Interview Project, the Black Male Studies blog at: www.NewBlackMasculinities.wordpress.com, and the (online) Institute for Black Male Studies. Finally, in 2019, he created The Onyx Report on both YouTube and Inner Light Radio.

He was also part of the founding team for The African American Edge Initiative and the development of both the Annual Harambee Retreat and the Office of Black Student Success at California State University, Fresno.

As a graduate student, he was awarded the prestigious Ford Dissertation Diversity Fellowship in 2006. In 2013, he was conferred both the Provost’s Award for Promising New Faculty and the Inaugural Fresno State Talks! Lecture Series Award in 2013, while receiving a COSS Teaching Award the following year. 

He has made contributions to esteemed journals such as The International Journal of Africana Studies, Spectrum: A Journal for Black Men, and books such as Jay-Z: Essays on Hip Hop's Philosopher King, Icons of Hip-Hop, and Dropping Knowledge: Hip-Hop Pedagogy in the Academy. He is the developer of the concept of “Black Masculinism” and frequently publishes on anti-Black misandry, anti-Black male heterophobia, intra-racial misandry, and White supremacy. His first book, You Must Learn!: A Primer for the Study of Hip-Hop (2012), examines the socio-political histories that contribute to the development of Hip-Hop culture and creates new theoretical frameworks for understanding its development. His current book, titled, Solutions For Anti-Black Misandry, Flat Blackness, and Black Male Death: The Black Masculinist Turn, and A New Paradigm for Studying Black Males (2023), focuses on creating a new paradigm for studying Black males that challenges widely accepted stereotypes regarding Black males with contemporary data and new conceptual theory, while also providing solutions for structural anti-Black misandry.