The future of the academy will not be confined to a single method, a single voice, or a single form.
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400 Years of Witnessing: A Memoir of a People 1619-2019
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A2: Poetical Science Discourse
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To do more than volunteer in my daughter’s school.
I was compelled to be that change I wanted to see in our district." - Micheal Garza
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DON’T JUST STUDY & RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP.
OWN THE LANGUAGE THAT DEFINES IT.
The BLACK LEXICON SERIES is officially here with Vol. 1 Key Concepts in the Discipline of Africology.
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Asian Literary Festival Coming to Nairobi in May
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Engage this radical imagination title for Poetry Month 2026~
Four hundred years is not a distant past.
It is a continuous record of thought, memory, and presence.
Dr. Asante has lived and traveled across Global Africa. His work and memories serve as archival history.
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Jesse Jackson in World History
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Trinidad and Tobago’s Bocas Lit Fest 2026 Starts April 30
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Scholarship does not begin at the moment of publication.
It is built across decades of study, teaching, institution-building, and intellectual refinement.
Recommend it to your library & colleagues
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Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026 Shortlists Announced
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As a political scientist and political linguist, I study how language governs and shapes policy, identity, and belonging. But with A2, I wanted to do something more.
I wanted to show that Poetry is not separate from research. It can literally be the research itself.
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Poetry is powerful!
What if we take poetry to organize, reverse “dog whistle politics” to speak power?
What if we use art as scholarship, spit it through prose? What if it is science and methods, politics, and research variables?
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Beloved Poetry,
We write to you not as an abstraction, but as a living force—felt, carried, and returned through every breath that dares to name the world anew.
We see you.
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Jhalak Prize Announces 2026 Shortlists
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If your work engages Black Studies, Global Africanity, or people of African Descent, your language must meet the standard of your scholarship.
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It could be asked, could another scholar have done this work? The better question is who has the intellectual lineage, theoretical grounding, pedagogical depth, and disciplinary commitment to define a field at this level?
Dr. Nah Dove and Dr. Molefi Kete Asante do.
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Universal Write Publications announces the pre-order launch of
THE BLACK LEXICON, Vol. 1: Africology
Africology is the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, including history, culture, and politics from the perspective of Global Africanity.
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Universal Write Publications announces the launch of
THE BLACK LEXICON, Vol. 1: Africology
A discipline is sustained through its language.
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Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.
Book Digest: Karen Jennings, Soraya Bouazzaoui, Denny S. Bryce, Orliane Kamwa Kemadjou
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Victor Glover is not only on track to become the first person of color to ever leave low Earth orbit, he is also currently *piloting* #ArtemisII
![“I fear that we have come full circle. After the Civil War, our government started several `affirmative action’ program. This court in the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy v. Ferguson destroyed the movement toward complete equality. For almost a century no action was taken, and this inaction was with the tacit approval of the courts. Then we had Brown v. Board and the Civil Rights Acts of Congress, followed by numerous affirmative action programs. Now, we have this Court again stepping in, this time to stop affirmative action programs of the type [challenged in Bakke]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6xbkw7bucg6ws3vqwnxqewp/bafkreigx6mpr2ursvmko7hm3ex4q2lc4v3jr5fip2kfdywgobqmecievtu)
“I fear that we have come full circle. After the Civil War, our government started several `affirmative action’ program. This court in the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy v. Ferguson destroyed the movement toward complete equality. For almost a century no action was taken, and this inaction was with the tacit approval of the courts. Then we had Brown v. Board and the Civil Rights Acts of Congress, followed by numerous affirmative action programs. Now, we have this Court again stepping in, this time to stop affirmative action programs of the type [challenged in Bakke]"
I find myself thinking of Thurgood Marshall's 1978 dissent in the Bakke case, in which he notes the historic role of the Supreme Court in the backlash against civil rights in the wake of Reconstruction and wonders the whether another such backlash was afoot. "I fear that we have come full circle."
In recent weeks, Princeton has laid off the entire staff of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, frozen salaries for tenured faculty, capped staff raises at a flat 1 percent, and cut departmental budgets by as much as 10 percent.
Introducing THE BLACK LEXICON SERIES, a scholarly initiative by Universal Write Publications advancing conceptual language across disciplines in the academy.
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