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Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Banned Books Week is coming! Oct. 4–10, we’re celebrating the freedom to read and shining a light on censorship in schools and libraries. Follow along for challenged books, resources, and ways to turn awareness into action. #BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead #ReadFreely
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A special resource for everyone in your networks - gift links for the New York Times, every week from Digimentors. www.digimentors.group/post/ep-411-...
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Ayo Sekai @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I look forward to cultivate those bridges by creating opportunities for scholars to connect, strengthening pathways for faculty development, advancing meaningful collaboration, and preserving knowledge through this invitation to help steward a legacy. @uwpbooks.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory
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Writing Africa @writingafrica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rwanda’s Umurage International Book & Arts Festival 2026 #LiteraryFestival #Rwanda www.writingafrica.com/rwandas-umur...
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Rwanda’s Umurage International Book & Arts Festival 2026
The Umurage International Book & Arts Festival 2026, themed "The future is written: human voices, intelligent tools," will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, from September 30 to October 3, 2026.
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A² Did Not Invent Poetic Inquiry. Before Poetry's New Methods Moment, A Squared Was Already Asking the Question A Squared did not just follow the current wave. Pioneering scholarship does not erase its ancestors. CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION… @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social uwpbooks.com/product/a2-a...
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
TRANSCEND AFROPHOBIA. Means something. START THE CONVERSATION. THE BOOK HAS A DRESS CODE. Transcendental Africanity + Transcend Afrophobia Hoodie and Hat! LET YOUR CROWN SPEAK TRUTH. LET YOUR BOOKS GIVE IT LANGUAGE. uwpbooks.com/merch/ #wewilltellourownstory @centerblacked.bsky.social
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
SOME IDEAS SHOULD NOT STAY ON THE PAGE. Wear the conversation. 🖤 TRANSCEND AFROPHOBIA HOODIE For the classroom, campus, conference, community, and wherever the conversation finds you. 📚 Pair it with Transcendental Africanity and take the scholarship beyond the page. uwpbooks.com/product/hood...
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Hoodie - Transcend Afrophobia - Universal Write Publications
The TRANSCEND AFROPHOBIA hoodie wraps you in cultural pride and intellectual power. Perfect for scholars, artists, and those who refuse to be silenced - these hoodies are designed bold Afrocentric sym...
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FACULTY: WHAT QUESTIONS WILL YOUR STUDENTS BE ASKING ABOUT GLOBAL AFRICA? “What this volume ultimately offers is not a catalog of problems but a blueprint of possibilities.” uwpbooks.com/product/tran... @africanacarr.bsky.social @afrlib.bsky.social
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Society for Scholarly Publishing @scholarlypub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Guest Post — Peer Review Triage: Deciding What’s Worth Saving - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Guest Post — Peer Review Triage: Deciding What’s Worth Saving - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post asks what about our current peer review system is worth saving and if we're able to establish one that protects editorial judgment and preserves research integrity.
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Ayo Sekai @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It feels strange to say, “I developed a research method.” You wonder if it means anything or if anyone cares? But we don't have to be fearless to move forward. The 3rd MethodsNET Conference, Oxford, Arts-Based Research & Canada, 10th Intl Symposium on Poetic Inquiry asks questions A2 Answers.
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Writing Africa @writingafrica.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Over 180,000 Children Take Part in Kenya’s National Read Aloud 2026 #ReadingAdvocacy #BookSky www.writingafrica.com/over-180000-...
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Over 180,000 Children Take Part in Kenya's National Read Aloud 2026
A total of 180,367 readers took part in Kenya's National Read Aloud campaign, held across the country on Friday, July 10, 2026.
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AI can manufacture a Black woman's face, body and movements. But the stereotypes it reproduces are much older than AI. When Black womanhood becomes training data, who controls the representation, and who profits? Continue the conversation. uwpbooks.com/product/medi... @booksky.bsky.social
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Scholars Who Build a Field Must Help Guard Its Future~ Universal Write Publications is deeply honored to welcome Faye Z. Belgrave, Ph.D., to UWP’s Senior Editorial Directors. uwpbooks.com/executive_ad...
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This appointment reflects the future UWP is building. A future in which publishing, applied research, cultural intelligence, emerging technology, and public scholarship are brought into meaningful conversation. Welcome to UWP, Karlyn, Senior FORGE Fellow. Meet Karlyn: uwpbooks.com/uwp_books_te...
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Ayo Sekai @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I was deeply honored to receive a @govwesmoore.bsky.social citation from the State of Maryland recognizing my work in publishing through @uwpbooks.bsky.social as we celebrated Maryland Caribbean Heritage Month & to Luis McSween and Mrs. McSween for making this moment possible. uwpbooks.com/founder/
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Sneak preview. Fall 2026. Macalester College. #slaveryarchive
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A nation can enforce laws while still recognizing that there is a difference between policy and cruelty, between governance and humiliation. Dr. Asante will sign BEING HUMAN BEING after his discussion 8.30.26 | 45pm | MKA Institute 5535 Germantown Avenue uwpbooks.com/product/bein...
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Winner of NCBS Julia Cooper and CLR James Award ~ Outstanding Scholarly Publication in Africana Studies. It entered academic library discovery and acquisition channels. It's scholarship appears in subsequent academic research. UWP celebrates Illmatic Consequences - uwpbooks.com/product/illm...
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
PSD asks us to make knowledge production visible. A question leads to a poem as primary data generation. Then rigor, lexical and conceptual signposts, theoretical pairing, historical and cultural context, scholarly analysis, and defense of the resulting knowledge claim. uwpbooks.com/product/a2-a...
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Michael D’Antonio's foreword described Trump through the framework of the cult leader and examined the relationship between self-aggrandizement, followers, power, and political spectacle. uwpbooks.com/product/news... @pspolisci.bsky.social @lukezh.bsky.social @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social #PhD
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Ayo Sekai @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
UWP Enters the Scholarly Record Deepest gratitude to editors Dr. Olaocha Nwabara and Dr. Korka Sall, who encouraged me to go deeper, and include my Jamaican-Caribbean-American diasporic, and UWP experience. @uwpbooks.bsky.social @pspolisci.bsky.social digitalcommons.cortland.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Writing Africa @writingafrica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Zora Legacy Awards 2026 Finalists Announced #LiteraryAwards #Fiction #BookSky www.writingafrica.com/zora-legacy-...
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Zora Legacy Awards 2026 Finalists Announced
The finalists of the Zora Legacy Awards 2026 were announced in Washington, D.C., USA, on Friday, August 14, 2026.
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Writing Africa @writingafrica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives Comes to the Big Screen #NigerianLiterature #NovelToScreen #BookSky www.writingafrica.com/lola-shoneyi...
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Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives Comes to the Big Screen
Lola Shoneyin's novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives has been adapted into a feature film, which will make its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival 2026.
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The ALA found issues to 4,235 unique titles in 2025, including 1,671 books representing the experiences of people of color and LGBTQIA+. These numbers show educators need more than a list of permitted or prohibited titles. They need a defensible educational philosophy. uwpbooks.com/product/the-...
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Models of resistance. Which path do you choose? wp.me/p92vE6-1hU
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The Fluid Archive (7 July 2026)
Figure 1. Harriet Tubman and the expertise to navigate the Eastern Shore. [LLM Report] / The Ohio River operates as the central geopolitical and symbolic threshold of the American counter-narrative…
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This week, new scholarship on K–12 teacher preparation described an “AI literacy lag”—tech entering classrooms faster than educators are being prepared to understand its pedagogical, ethical, and intellectual consequences. @ctulocal1.bsky.social @peaceandteachin.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Before AI entered hospitals, medicine relied on scoring systems, formulas, diagnostic criteria, reference ranges, and risk calculations to organize clinical decision-making. Those tools can appear objective because they are mathematical. uwpbooks.com/product/epig... @psychscience.bsky.social
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A 2026 study, “Interplay between social contact and media exposure in the overestimation of racial diversity in the U.S.,” found that seeing diversity is not the Same as Understanding Representation. uwpbooks.com/product/medi... @inequalitymedia.bsky.social @blackmedia.bsky.social
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
August 6, the London School of Economics' U.S. politics program published new research on Black congressional staff representation, arguing that staff diversity affects what Congress does on civil-rights policy. In conversation with Dr. Nelson's uwpbooks.com/product/visi... @lukezh.bsky.social
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It may not be much, but it is something. Resistance can be small, but it is still resistance! #wewilltellourownstory @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There is something special that happens when you walk into a Black bookstore. First: Read the article: Read the article uwpbooks.com/black-voices... Next step: Join MahoganyBooks on Aug. 1 for the FREE Black Books Matter Fest from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 121 American Way, National Harbor.
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Last couple dates of this sale. Visit uwpbooks.com/shop-books/ to apply your 20% discount. Buy them together or separately. Universal Write Publications Black Academic Excellence #wewilltellourownstory #ayosekai #psychology #abpsi2026 @lukezh.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social @booksky.club
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Have you wondered why some of the people who changed the way you think are people you've never met? What if you could ask them... What inspired this? Why this framework? What do you hope I take away? At UWP, we thought... Maybe you don't have to? @lukezh.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"In her book “South of Pico” (2017), about Black artists in Los Angeles in the ’60s and ’70s, the art historian Kellie Jones described Ms. Saar’s Aunt Jemima as “incredibly strident, promoting the threat of violence.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/a...
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Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99 (Gift Article)
Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.
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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I feel attacked #booksky
You’re doing a lot of scrolling for someone who has a book to read
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The essential book for the last decade and the next decade. #BookSky
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"UWP invites book manuscripts that [are written] so that a researcher can clearly follow them. The works provide examples of how methods or frameworks are applied in the research process and their utility in empowering communities of African descent. #Blackademics #ResearchMethodology
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Spooky Calculator @spookycalculator.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I know many people don’t understand pan Africanism but i hope things like these are a great intro for some! Ive had to learn to shift to thinking like this as well for better basis of how to fix issues and maintain such in society (why im training to be a psych).
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"To tell the story of Africa as a story of empires is, in part, to repeat colonial hierarchies inside our own history. ... the empires were late. They were the visible flowering of a deeper, older intellectual tradition that had already done the hard work of becoming human.." - Yaw Kissi #BlackSky
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Empire Was the Fruit, Knowledge Was the Root: Why African Civilizational History Does Not Begin with the Pharaohs - Universal Write Publications
African civilization did not begin with crowns, pyramids, or empires. Long before Kemet, Mali, or Songhai, African societies had already mastered agriculture, metallurgy, astronomy, medicine, and symb...
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Universal Write Publications is thrilled to offer 20% OFF four foundational works advancing the scholarship and practice of Black Psychology by life members, founders, and past presidents of #ABPsi. Visit our bookstore uwpbooks.com/shop-books/ @blackpsycho100.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Whether you are a student, educator, researcher, psychologist, therapist, counselor, or clinician, these books strengthen your understanding of the language, history, research methods, and theoretical foundations that continue to expand the discipline. July 29 – Aug 4, 2026 SAVE 20% Code: ABPSI20
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The hardest part of decolonization may not be confronting what Europe taught us. It may be confronting what we continue to teach ourselves. Journal: THE RESEARCHER Article DOI: doi.org/10.65724/DTN... @unesco.bsky.social @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory @africanacarr.bsky.social
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
May every child who enters the water return home. Let preparation be part of our legacy. May we continue transforming historical barriers into life-saving skills and shared responsibility. Swimming: An American Legacy of Racism in the Water Author: Danita Dixon DOI: doi.org/10.65724/MPP...
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Swimming: An American Legacy of Racism in the Water
Author, Danita Dixon, M. S. - The summer months have arrived in the U.S., and families and friends are gathering for events often involving beaches, lakes, and pools. Black people may often be found f...
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🎉 LAUNCH DAY! Take a LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK and preview selected pages: uwpbooks.com/product/key-... The Black Lexicon • Volume 2 Key Concepts in the Discipline of Black Psychology Author: Faye Z. Belgrave, PhD Series DOI: doi.org/10.65724/MVY... Published by Universal Write Publications
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Curious what's inside? Explore our "LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK" feature and preview selected pages: uwpbooks.com/product/key-... Key Concepts in the Discipline of Black Psychology By: Dr. Faye Z. Belgrave @psychscience.bsky.social @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social @journalphp.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Freedom to Be Woke | David Cole A court ruling striking down Florida’s Stop WOKE Act is both a major affirmation of academic freedom and a window into the free-speech debates dividing the right. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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The Freedom to Be Woke | David Cole
In the never-ending debate about freedom of speech on college campuses, conservatives have long condemned “cancel culture,” an attitude of intolerance
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Amen. #BookSky
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Black Diaspora News @blackdiasporanews.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Happy Birthday to Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka 📝🎊🎈 #wolesoyinka #celebrritynews #celebritybirthdays #poet #playwright
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