Thomas Sowell

 Thomas Sowell (/soUl/, born June 30 1930), is a prominent American economist, author, commentator, academic, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a well-known conservative of the black community and is famous for his writings and his commentary. In 2002, he received the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina to a poor family and was raised in Harlem, New York City. [6] Due to being poor and having difficulties at home He was forced to leave Stuyvesant High School and began working in various odd jobs before eventually being a member of the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was a student at night at Howard University after which he went to Harvard University. In 1958 it was his turn to be granted the magnacum felicite degree. His teacher Milton Friedman gave him a master's degree in economics at Columbia University in the following year, and in 1968 the doctoral degree was awarded to him by the department of economics at the University of Chicago. Through his academic life, he's been on the faculties at Cornell University, Amherst College, Brandeis University, the University of California, Los Angeles and, at present, Stanford University. He has worked at think tanks, including the Urban Institute. Since 1977, he has worked in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy.