"I'm just trying to tell the truth and I think in order to do that we will have to invent, in addition to new forms, new modes and new idioms."
—Toni Cade Bambara

Honored and humbled.
My book received the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from AERA Division B.🖤
Save 30% on the paperback until May 31st! 👇🏿

Looking forward to joining The Possibilities Project at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, for their colloquium. TPP is an arts-informed knowledge hub reimagining education in ways that center the wellbeing of Black youth. Honored to be part of this important work. 🖤 Hope to see you there.

Excited to learn with Dr. Chezare Warren this coming Thursday!

On Mourning, Possibility, and Black Education in the Right Now | 🗓 March 20, 2025 | ⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET | 📍 Virtual Event

Register here: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨 Tonight at 6:30 PM! 🚨 Join us for a Deep Study Roundtable with Black Study in Education Lab Faculty-in-Residence, Dr. @tichavakunda.bsky.social , as we engage with Derrick Bell’s theory of racial realism. #BlackStudy #DeepStudy #RacialRealism

🚨 Black Possibility as Creative Praxis Webinar🚨

Excited to learn with the brilliant @drtanksley.bsky.social this week!

📅 Feb 27 | 12–1 PM (EST)
📢 The Power and Potentiality of Abolitionist Tech
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/r/jC22BKxRBx

#BlackStudy #AbolitionistTech #CreativePraxis

How do Black creative practices disrupt anti-Black violence in education? Drawing inspiration from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s–70s, this series explores how Black cultural production serves as a tool for healing, resistance, and reimagining education. Join us Thursday; registration below.

👋🏿 new to BlueSky and still figuring it out🙃, but here is a quick intro:
- Assistant Prof. at Penn State
- #creative (performance poetry)
- I read, write, and study at the nexus of #BlackStudies and #Education
- ΚΑΨ ♦️
- #author of #newbook 💫

#academicsky #blacksky #edusky #blackademic #blackbooksky