Tag: Black immigrants

• President Elect Patriann Smith Invites Proposals for LRA 2026

  

  The Literacy Research Association (LRA) has released its Call for Proposals for the 2026 conference to be held on December 2-5, 2026 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. As President Elect and Conference Chair in collaboration with Vice President and Associate Conference Chair, Dr. Rahat Zaidi, I am delighted to share this Call for LRA’s 76th conference and…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  January 11, 2026

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• “Island of Hope, Island of Tears”: Racializing Ellis Island for Such a Time as This

  

  Alas, the quantum ancestral possibilities, imbued yet lying dormant for generations, now beckon, functioning as a remote reminder that our redemptive restitution rests only in our power to harness the shared humanity that binds us — Native peoples to immigrants; immigrant racialized as Black to immigrant racialized as white; descendant of the enslaved to (descendant…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  June 12, 2025

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• Panelist: White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans

  

  On June 12 & 13, 2024, the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans and Discovery Education, convened the Power Up summit in Chicago, IL under the leadership of Malcolm Kenyatta (Chair, Presidential Advisory Commission) & Monique S. Toussaint (MA, GCDF), Senior Advisor, White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  June 27, 2024

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