This article is a generous invitation to literacy researchers globally to follow the Black literacy tradition that has saved the minds, bodies, and souls of Black folks as well as fellow human beings throughout the world. Where will this lead? We see the post-White turn and post-White futures for all. This is a celebrated departure from our racial past and present with a definitive commitment to interrogating and dismantling the legacies of racism which (re)constructively entails racial literacies for all.
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