Marcus Croom, PhD

Happy Juneteenth! 🎉👏🏿🥳♥️

“In other words, slave society USA was critiqued by racially Black folks on metaphysical, intellectual, discursive, material, and sociopractical terms with love.” —Croom, 2024

Post-White Excursuses: Distracting from Westerly Desires and Destinations in Critical Religious Literacy | Request PDF Request PDF | Post-White Excursuses: Distracting from Westerly Desires and Destinations in Critical Religious Literacy | The Black Holiness Pentecostal Christian (BHPC) tradition is a focal point through which I illustrate(ed) multiple excursuses beyond Westerly... | Find, read and cite all the rese...

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

So many great people and stories begin in Goldsboro, North Carolina. ♥️

: Our travel and collaboration in Hamburg, Germany was unforgettable!

The Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study, Teachers College, Columbia University (), is collectively articulating: A Vision for the Future of Education. Here's the abstract I've drafted for my contribution. Stay tuned with Ezekiel Dixon-Román and our entire project team for this future-making collaboration.

🚨Carolina Hurricanes win the cup! 🎉🥳🔥

DID THE DAMN THING

Elon Musk is now worth about as much as the world’s next four richest people combined.

Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX shares rose following a record-breaking initial public offering that raised $75 billion for the rocket company. https://wapo.st/3QDHuAP

An octagon on the White House lawn for Trump's 80th birthday and the nation's 250th, in photos WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive UFC event is taking over the White House’s South Lawn. The event celebrates President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

🚨As a newly elected member of the LRA Board of Directors, I'm thrilled to see one of our IUB School of Education LCLE Ph.D. graduates, Dr. Dianne Wellington, featured in this 2026 summer series. I also passed this event along to our LCLE program and the IUB School of Education.🎉

We are excited to announce our summer Plática series! This is a collaboration event between the LRA Doctoral Student ICG (DSICG) and the STAR (Scholars of Color Transitioning into Academic Research Institutions) Fellows. Throughout the month of June, through a series of talks around a virtual "table," the STAR fellows will share their realities, lessons learned, testimonials, and expertise as evolving scholars who are committed to justice and as human beings navigating academia. Below are the details for this Plática series. Please feel free to share the opportunity with other doctoral students!

Session 2: How to Publish in Grad School (and Other Tips & Tricks), Thursday, June 11th, 9-10am PDT (12-1pm EDT)

Please RSVP for the event:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6Y8QJMTMYB_reiCWmFWelvSR9ZKqrQq8nepcrmdrDYxC2rg/viewform

All registered attendees will receive a video conferencing link to access the talk the day prior to the event. Please come to the event with questions and be ready to engage in generative conversations!

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