The radical critique of culture called black studies is at a crossroads. 

Yet the obviousness of this statement is a bit misleading 

because it seems to imply a newness to our nowness. 

Black studies is stuck at a standstill today 

because the ground of black culture 

was cultivated at the primordial crossroads

formed by the Old World and the New World.

Thus, the precarity black studies now finds itself experiencing 

is only the contemporary manifestation of a t that was never crossed 

once the study of black culture was institutionalized.

Caught in the labyrinth of liberal progress, 

the critical stroke of heresy remained out of reach, 

and that bewitched t was bound to i—incompleteness.

(de)cypher+ aspires to cross the t of black studies 

in an ink that cannot be erased or whitened out.