El Kati is a Black educator, activist, lecturer, writer, and commentator on the African American experience, his articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Star Tribune, Insight News, The Spokesman, and The Nigerian Times and cover the "myth of race," Ebonics, gang activity, African Americans and sports, and other issues. El-Kati taught courses on the history of blacks in the United States, American social movements, sports and the African American community, the social history of jazz, and Afro American folklore at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

He is co-founder and director of the annual Pan-African Conference at Minnesota State University Mankato. For over 24 years it’s featured discussions on African thought throughout the Black Diaspora. El-Kati is actively involved in community organizations, such as March, a Twin Cities group that formed following the Million Man March, the Minneapolis-based Stairstep Foundation, and KMOJ, a community radio station in Minneapolis.

He is the recipient of the National Association of Black Storytellers' Zora Neale Hurston Award, given to people whose scholarly historical writings preserve African and African American culture and tradition in America. He also recently received a Sankofa Award from the Stairstep Foundation for his longtime and unwavering commitment and work with the Twin Cities African American community. In 2022, Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati received an honorary doctorate from Macalester College.

Freeman (seen here with Horace Huntly at Morrill Hall in 1969) was president of the Afro-American Action Committee (AAAC) at the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus in 1969. She helped lead the January 14, 1969 peaceful protest, where approximately seventy Black students with the Afro-American Action Committee (AAAC) occupied the University of Minnesota’s bursar's and records office in Morrill Hall to protest the hostile campus environment towards Black students and the absence of an African American studies department. The protest became known as the “Morrill Hall takeover.”

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