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Volume 4 (2026) Black Sustainability Among the Ruins: The New Technologies of Ancestral Wisdom and Rebuilding the Present

Tracks

The Cypher: Freedom Dreaming and Black Sustainability Beyond the Ruins
Tiffani Marie, Kenjus Watson, David Stovall, Dre Carter, simple ant, and Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton

dancing in the wake | like moss over modernity
simple ant

Embodied Archives: The Body as Technology of Black Sustainability
Felicia Rutledge

Black Boys and the New Media Mixtape: Ownership, Aspiration, and Hustle in a Digital Age
Kareem Edouard

After the Bell: Black Sustainability as a Practice of Remembering
Darius Phelps

Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad as Ancestral Technology for Black Futures
Julia Lynch

From the Hood to the PWI: A Self-Reflective Journey as Learner and Educator
Tatiana C. Height

Kong Koch: An Autoethnography on Jieng Indigenous Wisdom and Ethos of Leadership
Dau D. Jok

We Buried the Curriculum and Called It Holy
Charles E. Becknell Jr. and Johnna Rocker-Clinton

So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: A Critical Race Counterstory on Teacher Preparation and Repair
La Mont Terry

Uplifting Black Pedagogical Rituals of Purpose Through Portraits of Toni Morrison’s Humanistic Education
Darion A. Wallace

Bonus Tracks

Remixing the Academy Through Backyard Spaces: The Making of Black Educology, the Mixtape
Dre Carter and Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton

Purposefully Black Interactional Systems: Disrupting Punitive School Discipline Models Through Banter, The Funk, and the Black Aesthetic
S. M. Wilson

Community Voices

Alive During Loneliness
Shabrena Barnard

Youth Speaks

“Hip-Hop permeates everything I do:” The Intersections of Global Politics, Hip-Hop, and Education
Mecedes Lindsay

Just a Dream
Makayla Miller

Resources

Dissertatin' While Black
T. Gertrude Jenkins

Set Lists For Conversations On Necropolitics, Antiblackness, And Colonialism
Noah Morton