- As a preteen, he along with other black students were bussed to integrate Montauk Junior High.
- Ron grew up in the Van Dyke housing projects in Bronzeville, Brooklyn, New York.
- Graduated from Brooklyn, New York's Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in 1968.
- Graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. in Afro-American Studies (1972), a M.A. in African History (1978), and a M.S. in Educational Communications (1979).
- Received his Ph.D. in Mass Communications from Howard University in 1987.
- He donated his archives to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian Museums so that his legacy would be preserved.
- Awarded the Harvey Milk Alumni Award from the State University of New York at Albany.
- Was an assistant professor at Howard University where he taught courses in mass communication, history and theory, radio and television production, still photography, black film and research methods until 1992.
- In 1972 Simmons served as the editor-in-chief of State University of New York - Albany's undergraduate yearbook, "Torch 1972,".
- In 2017 he started his own company, Ron Simmons Consulting, LLC.
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