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5 Questions With Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.
Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., an associate professor for Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University of Maryland and the host of “Today with Dr. Kaye,” is known for having an informed opinion about issues that are happening within Baltimore City and across...
A Foot in Both Worlds: Social Justice and Scholarship
In this photo, (left) Amy Aldridge Sanford is with Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, at a rally in Corpus Christi, TX, in February 2021 The convergence of scholarship and activism is not new, but within one of NCA’s fastest growing divisions—like in today’s Communication discipline—an...
What Academic Publishing Did Next
The true seeker of truth never loses hope. The true seeker of real justice never tires. A farmer does not stop planting seeds just because of the failure of one crop. Success is born of trying and trying again. Truth must seek justice. Justice must seek the truth. When justice triumphs, truth will...
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