Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942)[1][2] is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

He curates two websites related to African-American history, "Malcolm X: A Research Site" and "eBlack Studies".

[3] Born as Gerald Arthur McWorter in Chicago's Cook County Hospital,[4] he lived with his family in the Frances Cabrini Houses until 1953, when they moved to the city's West Side.

[6] During the late 1960s, he helped create the Institute of the Black World (IBW) in Atlanta with professors Vincent Harding and Stephen Henderson and other student activists, including Howard Dodson, A.

The IBW became "the most dynamic black 'think tank' of the era", according to Peniel E. Joseph, assistant professor of Africana studies at Stony Brook University.