On Mourning, Possibility, and Black Education in the Right Now
Date & Time: March 20, 2025, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Location: Zoom Meeting
The CSHE and the BSIEL presents The Power and Potentiality of Abolitionist Tech, part of the 2024-2025 Black Study in Education Lab Webinar Series.
In this talk, Dr. Chezare A. Warren explores how mourning, possibility, and Black education intersect amid the enduring racialized conditions of the United States. He argues that it is not Blackness itself, but the sociopolitical landscape—rooted in plunder and extraction—that renders Black life precarious and constrains Black futures. Positioning mourning as both a political and pedagogical act, Dr. Warren calls attention to the enduring vulnerability Black students face in formal education. At the same time, he highlights the imagination, resilience, and collective memory that have sustained Black communities across generations. He elevates art as a vital praxis for naming and intervening in Black suffering, and calls for a deeper analysis of how Blackness is socially and politically constructed. In doing so, he opens space for reimagining Black education as a site of radical possibility.