William Cook

William S. Cook is an educator, historian and writer. He started freelance writing during the middle 1990s, publishing numerous articles on social, political and cultural activities in the Gannett Newspapers of Westchester County and in the City Sun Newpaper of the Tri-State area. He also wrote, produced and directed the documentary, "Afrocentricity," which won an award (2002) from the Roy W. Dean Film/Video Foundation. In 2004, Mr. Cook published a book of short stories for teenagers and young adults, Children of the Sun. He has just completed a history book entitled An African Perspective of European History to the 1700s.

Mr. Cook attended Langston College (University) in Oklahoma, and he is a graduate of Hunter College of the City University of New York.