Concern about highly educated newcomers seems quaint and has for the most part dissipated, though its echo remains in the occasional rhetorical barb aimed at H-1B workers in Silicon Valley. It is difficult to remember how in the 1960s and '70s the brain drain roused passions as heated as those surrounding our current immigration crises. If America

Instead I continued to pursue exploring and entering slightly forbidden worlds to learn for the sake of advancing Black people.

DC is being gentrified like major cities everywhere. It raises the question: To whom does this place belong? That is a local question, but it is also an existential one. We are literally still fighting over whether Black people belong to their home places and whether their home places belong to them. Once, the formerly enslaved migrated to DC with