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Prof. Clarke, former chair of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter, helped spur development of the Black and African studies disciplines internationally and was devoted to redressing what he saw as the systematic and racist distortion of African history by traditional scholars. A professor at Hunter from 1969 to 1985, he died July 16, 1998. The Department at Hunter was founded in 1969 after Black and Puerto Rican students combined their struggles to have courses relevant to their cultures added to the curriculum, said Joyce Toney, chair of Black and Puerto Rican Studies. 68th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues. Feature-length documentary on John Henrik Clarke.