Today’s conversation is with Robert P. Robinson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Gender Studies at John Jay College and Doctoral Faculty in Urban Education, Africana Studies, and Interactive Technology & Pedagogy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Prior to higher education, he was a K-12 educator and mentor for 11 years. His broad research and teaching focus on the Black Freedom Movement, Black education history, Blackqueer studies, digital humanities, history of education, and curriculum studies. Robinson’s work can be found in Women’s Studies Quarterly, the Journal for Multicultural Education, and The Killens Review of Arts & Letters, and more. Robinson is a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow for his forthcoming book, Education for the Revolution: The Legacy of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School, which will be published in January 2027 through NYU Press’s Black Power Series.