Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel Khazan) Ayantee 1963
Jibreel Khazan (Ezell Blair, Jr.) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on October 18, 1941. He graduated from James B. Dudley High School in 1959 and began his freshman year at A&T College having received an A&T College Alumni Association Scholarship. Jibreel and his roommate, Joe McNeil, one of the A&T Four, lived in Scott Hall their freshman year. He recounts that “on Sunday night, January 31, 1960, we decided we were going to request equal service for all Americans at F. W. Woolworth’s lunch counter on Monday, February 1, 1960.”
Dr. Khazan graduated from A&T with a Bachelor of Science in sociology and social studies. He studied law at Howard University Law School in Washington, DC, education at Massachusetts University in Dartmouth, Massachusetts and voice at the New England Conservatory of Music. Dr. Khazan has worked as a teacher and counselor and is an oral historian, oracle, Mass-Star Story teller and lecturer.
Dr. Khazan received the honorary doctorate of humanities degree from North Carolina A&T State University on May 5, 1991.