I am Dr. Bonnie V. Franks and have returned to my Hebrew roots and renamed myself Dr. Beneyah Yashar’el. A name I chose from the Slave Manifest of one of the slave ships. Upon further research, I found that the Hebrew meaning of the name is “Construction.” This meaning got my attention because I then realized the Most High YAHUAH named me to construct our true Hebrew Israelite history. The Bahamas was where I was born and received my early education. I furthered my studies at Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas where I completed my Bachelors and Master’s degree in Education. Later in my teaching career I finished my doctoral studies in Educational Leadership at the Nova Southeastern University of Florida.
I have experience teaching at every level, from Kindergarten to University. My last teaching position was five years in Shanghai, China as Academic Manager of the International Department of Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School, where I taught and supervised foreign teachers of English.
Although harboring a deep, long-standing interest in my past, my future, and my purpose, my China experience led me to the discovery of the true identity of my ancestors. I learned that the Negro Slaves brought to the West aboard slave ships, during the Transatlantic Slave Trade were in fact, descendants of the Tribes of Israel known as the Hebrew Israelites.
This prompted me to ask some key questions and to look for the answers as to; why they chose these people to attack from the African Continent? Who were the people responsible for the atrocities committed against these “African” people? And, important too, was why a distinction made between the enslavement of the Black people from Sudan the lands called Negro land on the map of Africa as opposed to those of Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco, the true descendants of Ham the progenitor of the dark races. My research reveals that Edom-Rome knew the difference in the black people they enslaved and did not enslave the descendants of Ham although they claim the people that went into slavery were under the “curse” of Ham. History shows Edom-Rome did not expel the black African people of these Hamitic nations into the diaspora Because they continue to live in the lands given to their forefathers after the Great Flood to this day. Therefore, I set out to find the answers to these questions, which resulted in me writing my first history book using the Biblical and Historical evidence to confirm the truth of both Edom-Rome’s and Jacob-Israel’s history.
I hope that as the Black Hebrew Israelites of this tragedy awaken to the reality of their identity, and the truth about the enemy of the Israelites that they come to know, with documented certainty, the identity of Edom-Rome who perpetrated these heinous acts against our forefathers which continues against many of us still living in the diaspora today.
Dr. Beneyah Yasahr'el 