Dr. Firpo W. Carr is a best-selling author who resides in the Los Angeles area, and who hails originally from Watts via South-Central. He is an internationally known author, Bible scholar, Bible translator, lecturer, radio show producer, radio show host, and newspaper columnist. Along with Janet Jackson, he is the recipient of the “2004 NAACP Award for Excellence in the Media,” and has been selected for inclusion in the 60th anniversary Diamond Edition of Who’s Who in America 2006, after initially being selected for entry in Who’s Who in America 2005 (59th Edition). Furthermore, because of his accomplishments on an international scale, Dr. Carr has just been included in the 2006 edition of Who’s Who in the World.
While with IBM for ten years, Firpo made extraordinary technical contributions and spent countless hours visiting inner city elementary, junior high, and high schools in association with the company’s community service programs. His technical accomplishments moved IBM, uncharacteristically, to release a news story—in connection with his works—to the major newswire services.
His works have been acknowledged by Jewish scholars at the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum and in an encyclopedia entry on the Holocaust; Muslim scholars and authorities who invited him to speak at a prominent Muslim center in the Gulf area during the second Gulf war; and scholars in Christendom who feature his work on various Internet Web sites.
Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Texas, USA, is the latest in a growing number of institutions of higher learning that uses his best-selling book, Germany’s Black Holocaust: 1890-1945, as a textbook. Libraries across the country are requesting it as an invaluable reference work. It is also cited in the on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Firpo has traveled twice to the Soviet Union to study and take selected color photographs, for the first time ever, of the oldest most complete Hebrew Bible in the world, and has received international recognition for his daring ventures. Among these ventures are his travels to the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and both Central and South America. He has a love for languages (having studied a few ancient ones), and has read the entire dictionary in an effort to broaden his horizons, and critically examine the thought behind the meaning of words. This study resulted in his best-selling book, Wicked Words: Poisoned Minds—Racism in the Dictionary.
While visiting Cuba, the Cuban government, with the blessings of Fidel Castro himself, aired Dr. Carr’s 45-minute lecture on racism in the dictionary, as well in American culture, nationwide. President Bill Clinton is among a number of politicians, at home and abroad, that also admire Firpo’s works.
