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10/15/2025

New Release | Little Black Books Series, Volume 3

The Life History Method: Studying People of African Descent
By Doris Kakuru, Ph.D.

~Available now for pre-order from Universal Write Publications~

What happens when we move from studying people to listening to them?

LIFE HISTORY METHOD:
The Life History Method introduces a transformative approach to qualitative research that centers Black life, voice, and experience as sacred sources of knowledge. Dr. Doris Kakuru reclaims the life history method from its colonial foundations and reimagines it through Black/African Studies, decolonization, and epistemic justice.

Across five concise chapters, this critical guide leads scholars and researchers through every phase of culturally grounded life history research—from design to data collection, analysis, and dissemination—emphasizing reflexivity, ethics, and cultural preservation.

Perfect for:
• Graduate and faculty research courses
• Methodology and Black Studies programs
• Library collections advancing decolonial research practice

Pre-order your copy today and add this volume to your syllabus or library collection.

Discover the LITTLE BLACK BOOKS SERIES and build your method guides that easily explain, build, and include vital research that redefines how we know, record, and honor Black lived experience.

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10/14/2025

New Release | Little Black Books Series, Volume 3
The Life History Method: Studying People of African Descent
By Doris Kakuru, Ph.D.

What happens when we move from studying people to listening to them?

The Life History Method offers a groundbreaking framework for conducting qualitative research that centers Black life, voice, and experience as sacred sources of knowledge. Dr. Doris Kakuru reclaims the life history method from its colonial origins and reshapes it through the lens of Black/African Studies, decolonization, and epistemic justice.

This essential volume guides scholars and researchers through every phase of culturally grounded life history research. It is a STEP-by-STEP guide that takes you from design to dissemination, with attention to reflexivity, ethics, and the preservation of cultural memory.

LIFE HISTORY METHOD:
Historically, ethnographic research silenced the very people it claimed to represent. Dr. Kakuru’s work shifts that paradigm, bringing to the forefront those voices and transforming life histories from “data” into instruments of liberation and cultural transmission.

Now available through Universal Write Publications.
Discover a methodology that redefines how we know, record, and honor Black lived experience.

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10/14/2025

KIRKUS REVIEW | Media Racism
.. And it has never been more real!

To those shaping media and academic narratives, I urge you to deeply consider the impact of your platforms and narratives. As Dr. Marquita Gammage uncovers in Media Racism, the portrayal of Black women—like Kamala Harris and countless others—reflects a troubling bias that shapes public perception and reinforces systemic inequalities. These portrayals are not just inaccurate; they are damaging.

It’s time to confront the lens through which you view and communicate the stories of Black women. In a world where media shapes consciousness, the responsibility to uplift rather than diminish is critical.

Challenge the frameworks you’ve inherited. Acknowledge the imbalance. Engage with the lived experiences of those historically excluded. Only then can we build a media landscape that tells the full truth—a truth that includes, uplifts, and celebrates Black women’s leadership and humanity.

https://uwpbooks.com/books/gender-studies/media-racism-the-impact-of-media-injustice-on-black-womens-lives

10/13/2025

https://helloskip.com/b/universal-write-publications

UWP publishes a variety of topics through the framework of Black Scholars who write through the African lens: the lived experiences of the diaspora without compromising the rigor of academic scholarship that dignifies the essence of research, data analysis, and the scientific methods of the academy.

10/13/2025

✨ Author Spotlight | UWP Books

We’re thrilled to celebrate Dr. Benson Cooke, co-author of Epigenomic Awareness as a Key to Black Mental Health: The Disruptive Effects of Not Knowing (Universal Write Publications, 2025).

Dr. Cooke will be presenting at the University of California, Riverside as part of the Department of Psychology Colloquium Series on Thursday, October 16, 2025. His presentation, “The Transgenerational Impact of Depressive Disorders and Trauma Epigenomically and Psychologically,” explores how trauma and depressive disorders shape Black mental health across generations—connecting psychology, neuroscience, and community wellness.

We are proud to see scholarship continuing to inform, elevate, and transform academic and medical spaces.

Let’s uplift this vital conversation and the authors who keep our collective healing at the forefront.

10/08/2025

SANCTIONED ~

It is just as easy to say we will as it is to say we won’t!

The narrative BANNED is not ours.
To be silent is a choice.

We all have fight in us, and each of our fight looks different. But you can do something. You can read, buy, share, support, and teach the works that are inclusive of the truth.
No effort is wasted, as long as we do not stop trying. Never give up hope. Do no harm.

At Universal Write Publications, we fight with our words. We own our narrative. Silence is far more dangerous.

Let us celebrate the broken road. There is no Triumph without Trial
Our strength radiates through our fears.

This is not Banned Books Week.

This is Restored Books Week
This is Sanctioned Books Week
This is Liberated Books Week
This is Endorsed Book Week


To preserve what history forgets.
Join us in reading the work that refuses disappearance.

Universal Write Publications is restoring the narrative, one liberated voice at a time.

10/07/2025

Crown & Curricula: The Complete Molefi Kete Asante Signature Series~

Each collection has it’s own URL, also found on the main page when you click the individual collections, if you want to talk about each one separately. The offer is

Three Essential Collections of Afrocentric Thought for Scholars and Students.

One price. One foundation. Just $70.00 per bundle.
(with FREE shipping in the U.S.)
The Molefi Kete Asante 10-Day Sale

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10/06/2025

"Education is about ideas, questions, and interrogating that which might cause discomfort, but helps us to grow. When we remove books, we remove the mirrors and windows through which we all learn to see ourselves and understand others."

Dr. Ayo Sekai, Ph.D.
UWPBooks Founder

UWPBooks.com

10/06/2025

Banned Books Week reminds us that the freedom to read is the freedom to think. Throughout history, Black authors and thinkers—from David Walker’s Appeal to Toni Morrison’s Beloved—have faced censorship for telling truths that challenge power and provoke change. Defending these voices isn’t just about protecting books; it’s about preserving democracy, diversity, and the right to know.

10/06/2025

"The Yale department that studies people of African descent in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America has changed its name to the Black Studies Department, after 55 years of being called the African American Studies Department.

Three professors in the department told the News that the change was made to reflect a growing number of new professors whose regions of study extend beyond the United States. "

10/05/2025

Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statues of Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.

In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about South Florida’s Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of lynchings, how segregation still shapes the landscape and how grassroots activists mobilized the Civil Rights Movement to upend generations of oppression.

“You need to know how it happened before so you can decide how you want it to happen again,” she told her students as they sat as their desks, the morning light illuminating historic photographs on the walls.

Florida students are giving up their Saturday mornings to learn about African American history at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach and in similar programs at community centers across the state. Many are supported by Black churches, which for generations have helped forge the cultural and political identity of their parishioners.

Since Faith in Florida developed its own Black history toolkit last year, more than 400 congregations have pledged to teach the lessons, the advocacy group says.

Florida has required public schools to teach African American history for the past 30 years, but many families no longer trust the state’s education system to adequately address the subject.

By the state’s own metrics, just a dozen Florida school districts have demonstrated excellence at teaching Black history, by providing evidence that they are incorporating the content into lessons throughout the school year and getting buy-in from the school board and community partners.

SOURCE:

https://apnews.com/article/florida-black-history-desantis-african-american-education-8d14b055ddda651d2761dca30bba5600

10/04/2025

Witness how AFROCENTRICITY continues to liberate minds and shape worldviews!

Meet the Contributors on this amazing reel and their chapter titles.

What is Afrocentricity? This is about a theory developed by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, who is the originator of the concept. It is about you, your agency, your resilience, and your activism in pushing back against hate rhetoric.

We have the resources, the books, and the community that celebrate and inform.

Want to know what it is?

Read the full article here: https://uwpbooks.com/black-voices/black-studies/afrocentricity-definition