Volume 3 (2025) Thinking Beyond Carcerality and State Education Toward Black Futurities and Freedom Dreaming
Tracks
Mycelium, Lotus Flowers, and the Future We Gon’ Create: The Cypher
David Stovall Ph.D., simple ant, Dre Carter, Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, and T. Gertrude Jenkins
Building on Uncle Louis’ Lessons: A Recovering Academic’s Reflections on Death[and Life]
Tiffani Marie
Toward a Black-Brilliance Praxis of (Re)Centering and (Re)Imagining Blackness in Education
Kiese Vita
Thinking Beyond the University: Toward a Black Abolitionist Pedagogy
Re’Nyqua Farrington
Breaking the Chains: Tracking Through the Lens of Black Feminist Thought
Kristian Edosomwan and Aminah Crawford
We Have Fifty-Eleven Problems, Of Course, Racism Is One: Exploring the Navigation of a PWI
Aminah Crawford, Virginia Redwine Johnson, and Micayla Gooden
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Navigating Hostile Streets of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Charles E. Becknell Jr.
Prison Education and Abolitionist Praxis: Insights and Reflections from Inside-Out Participants
Ninah J. Jackson, Nyako Pippen, and Vanessa Massaro
The Community University of Social Work: The Creation of an Alternative Educational Space in Kenya
Daniel Mango
Pioneering Pedagogy and Curriculum for a Global Black Consciousness: An Interview with Dr. Kassie Freeman
D. Caleb Smith
Black Queer Youths’ Dreams of Safer and Equitable Schools
LaShanda Harbin
(Re)storying our Education: Black School Counselors Engaging and Cultivating Black Joy and Resistance in P–12 Schooling
Renae D. Mayes, Riley Drake, Adrianne C. Robertson, Carla B. Cheatham, and Betsy M. Perez
A Place to Belong: Abolitionist Storywork Through the Experience of an Unhoused Black Girl
Nichole Murray, Taryrn T.C. Brown, and Deandra West
Bonus Tracks
Inferior to Who?
De’Jshon Maxwell-Garcia
The Naked Soul Of A Dreamer
Abdou Kaba
Data Rap Research: Using Hip Hop for Critical Inquiry
Jonathan Tunstall
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simple ant
Community Voices
Why Would an Employee Quiet Quit?
Donika Gibson
Youth Speaks
Cal High’s March Towards Equity: A Documentation of Strength and Empowerment at California High
Hailey Godin, Mehr Goel, Isabella Grima, Emma Black, Brooke Johnson, Amane Lee, and Yukta Chutturi
Spare Change
Giavanna Deperio
Resources
“The School Pretty Much Doesn’t Care . . . But I Do” Syllabus
LeConte J. Dill and Shavaun S. Sutton
Vol. III Guest Producer
Dr. David Stovall, Professor of Black Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Vol. III Producers
Dre Carter, University of San Francisco
Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, Stanford University
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Vol. III Co-Producers
Amane Lee, California Institute of the Arts