Number 56
(2026)
Recovering and Reclaiming Black Histories: Integrating Historical Perspectives in Teaching and Research
Full Issue
Articles
Introduction: Recovering and Reclaiming Black Histories: Integrating Historical Perspectives in Teaching and Research
Mariah Deans Harmon and Taryrn T.C. Brown
Sanctuaries of Resistance: The Prophetic Black Church as Fugitive Education
Charles E. Becknell Jr.
Freedom is Taught Here: Freedom Schools and the Radical Tradition of Intergenerational Community Learning in Black Education
Trayc D. Freeman, Wintre F. Johnson, Tiffany D. Meadows, Christine Onyinyechi-Uju Emuka, and Naila A. Smith
Black Women Educators: An Exploration of Liberatory Pedagogical Practices at the Oakland Community School
Renée Wilmot
(Re)membering the Work of Septima Clark Amid the Gift of Chaos
Terrance J. Lewis, Alex Chisholm, and Kristen E. Duncan
Black Pedagogical Excellence from Fugitive Classrooms to Freedom Dreams: An Endarkened Perspective
Romonda L. Middlebrooks-Jefferson
Recovering a Gem: Melva L. Price, a New York City Teacher
Emmanuelle St. Jean
Voices from the Atrato: Reclaiming AfroColombian Education from the Riverbank
Siris Sulay Mena-Rivera, Karen Chaverra-Mosquera, and Maure Aguirre Ortega
(Re)membering as Resistance: Learning from my Grandma’s Story in a Time of Historical Erasure
Akilah K. Lyons-Moore
Carrying Memory, Building Capital: Black Family Child Care Educators’ Community Mothering and Educational Equity
Ashley R. Watts and Crystasany R. Turner
(Re)writing the Narrative: Study Abroad in Ghana as a Catalyst to (Re)frame Black Education
Amira Nash, Monique Cottman, and Corey Breiten
Guest Editors
- Mariah Deans Harmon
- Taryrn T.C. Brown
Mariah Deans Harmon, PhD (she/her), is an assistant professor of teacher education in the College of Education at Penn State University. As a member of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, her research centers on strategies to make teacher education programs more inclusive, specifically considering the needs of Black teachers. Before working in academia, Mariah was a middle school English/Language Arts Teacher in Okolona, Mississippi, teaching in the same school as her grandmother, Julia Bowen Williams, 40 years before. This connection has been a driving force for her engagement in the histories of Black teachers as a blueprint for pedagogical development today.
Taryrn T.C. Brown,PhD (she/her), is an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Florida. Her work explores how race, class, gender, and place shape educational experiences, with particular attention to youth-led research and university–community partnerships. Her interest in Black educational histories is deeply personal, shaped by her grandparents’ educational experiences in Zimbabwe and questions about whose histories are remembered, documented, and passed on. This connection informs her research interests in methods to recover, reclaim, and connect stories of the past to educational possibilities in the present.