James Hart Stern (June 13, 1964 – October 11, 2019)[1] was an African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, speaker, and author from Los Angeles, California. He was best known for his work defusing gang violence through a series of summits in the 1980s and 1990s and for his incarceration with Edgar Ray Killen, the former KKK leader who was convicted of the 1964 Mississippi Burning murders.