Stevie Johnson, PhD

Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson is a DJ, producer, educator and community organizer from Longview, TX. With close to ten years of college student development experience, Dr. View received his PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Oklahoma, in May of 2019. His written Hip-Hop & album dissertation, entitled Curriculum of the Mind: A BlackCrit, Narrative Inquiry Hip-Hop Album on Anti-Blackness & Freedom for Black Male Collegians at historically white institutions, received the 2019 Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award for the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Dr. View is the CEO of The Space Program (TSP), an independent record label hub and Hip-Hop collective; CEO of (IN)VISIBLE records; Executive Producer of Fire in Little Africa, which is a multimedia Hip-Hop Project commemorating Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District known as Black Wall Street, and the Manager of Education & Diversity Outreach for the Woody Guthrie Center & Bob Dylan Center. Dr. View is married to his wife Ariel, and is a father to his three year old son, Amir Sky.

Fire in Little Africa

Music anthology album will be on all streaming platforms with a live performance on Greenwood. Stevie “Dr. View '' Johnson gathered 60+ Oklahoma rappers, songwriters, musicians, engineers, producers, filmmakers, photographers, activists, poets, and painters in creating the album and documentary, Fire in Little Africa. A project of epic scale, Dr. View asked collaborators to reclaim narratives surrounding the creation and destruction of Black Wall Street.

Fire in Little Africa will be available on May 28 on digital streaming platforms and at https://fireinlittleafrica.smugmug.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/fireinlittleafrica. The documentary film will show on May 29 at the Legacy of Greenwood Festival.