found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Jiménez, Blas; poet; born 1950 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He received a student loan from the Agency for International Development to attend BA in Texas A&M University. As a poet, he urged Dominicans and other Afro-Caribbean peoples to embrace African cultural values and condemned discrimination against people of African descent; he served as secretary-general of the National Dominican Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He lives in Santo Domingo, where he is a professor of Afrocaribbean History and Culture at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra and publishes a weekly column in Hoy, one of the largest Dominican newspapers. He is the recipient of the Ethel L. Payne International Award for Excellence in Journalism)
