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Maisha Winn, "Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination," in conversation with Adam Banks

Maisha Winn, "Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination," in conversation with Adam Banks

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Learn more about Professor Winn's work in this May 2026 article, "AERA Presidential Address 2026 The Future Is Here: Historical Signals in Education Research." Futuring Black Lives is a historical ethnography examining Black institution builders in the late 1960s and early 1970s and their work to leverage the power of publications and the literary imagination to engage “concerned men and women” in conversations about the educational journeys and futures of Black children. While many began as reactions to anti-Blackness and American public schooling failing Black children, Independent Black Ins

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