About

The work of the Center for Africana Futures is specifically concerned with how Black folk envision and produce a digital Black future where we are central to and vital in all aspects of global life, not only as consumers or digital products but as owners and creators. We realize these goals through regranting to Texas Southern University faculty to support teaching, research, and creative projects focused on Black Digital Humanities and Black Digital Futures, as well as pedagogy and curriculum designed to introduce students at all levels to the ideas, theories, and methods that build big data, AI, the metaverse and technological futures assessments so that they can lead in careers, policy making, and activist pathways.

Meet the Team

  • Dr. Toniesha L. Taylor

    CENTER DIRECTOR

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  • Dr. Tyrone Dixon

    PRODUCTION ACCOUNTING; PROGRAM DIRECTOR

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  • Fridah Mariki

    Budget Administrator

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  • Precious D. Johnson

    Graduate Research Assistant

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  • Christopher A. Jarmon

    Graduate Research Assistant

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Previous Research Assistants

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    Troymanne Willis

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Spring 2024 Graduate

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    Dorethea Jones

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Spring 2024 Graduate

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    Philip King

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Spring 2024 Graduate