Atlantis School For Gifted Youngsters

Saladin Allah is the third-great grandson of the famous underground railroad Freedom Seeker Josiah Henson whom Harriet Beecher Stowe used as the primary narrative for her famous 19th Century novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Saladin is a Father of three girls, a Therapeutic Recreation major who attended Central State University in Wilberforce Ohio, a Region 6 Representative of the Five Percenters in WNY/Southern Ontario, and founder of the Atlantis School For Gifted Youngsters, Atlantis Build Talk Radio, and Quanaah Publishing. During his ten years as a freelance writer/radio host and twenty-two years as a youth advocate, Saladin has been globally published in print and online in a wide range of publications and he has created various youth programs, projects, and initiatives. Through his niche Atlantis School website, he has published 350+ articles and authored twenty-three books through Quanaah Publishing; five books are part of a Curatorial Activism archive initiative in the British Library. Additionally, Saladin has recorded four full-length albums, worked as a program consultant for an episode of the History Channel series 'Gangland', and has been globally cited as a Five Percenter subject-matter expert on Jay-Z’s cultural affiliations. In 2017 Saladin was nominated for the 21st Century Scholarship award at the 2nd Annual BP Awards in Atlanta, GA. In 2018 a permanent life-sized display and A/V narrative of Saladin's underground railroad heritage was included in the Freedom Gallery at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. In 2018 as a part of the Atlantis School For Gifted Youngsters, Saladin created seven online Youth Outreach Development courses, a Boys As Allies Rights of Passage Program, and Amazon Direct animation series. He is Niagara Falls’ 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Achievement Award Recipient and a featured historian in the 2019 IMAX Film ‘Into America’s Wild’ narrated by Morgan Freeman and hosted by Ariel Tweto and John Herrington. In 2020 he was again a featured historian in the six-part docuseries ‘Enslaved’ executive produced and starring Samuel L. Jackson and directed by three-time Emmy award-winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici. Saladin is a featured educator for the United Nations 2022 Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery documentary short and a historic consultant/contributor in the yet-to-be-released The Nature of Things CBC documentary ‘Secrets on the Boarder’ directed by Adrian Callendar. Saladin is currently an Elementary School Educator, Community Liaison at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, Public Art Coordinator for the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area, Commissioner for the Human Rights Commission in the City of Niagara Falls New York, and a Public Speaker.