Sublime

While the disadvantaged are held back, the privileged are offered freedom for their minds to roam the fields, scale the summits, and meander the byways of thought in search of knowledge.

The rise of Black educational spaces, including church schools and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), aimed to counter local resistance to Black education.

30 percent of Black medical school graduates first served as Pullman porters.13 In 1924, my grandfather told the New York Times, “I was studying to be

“I believe that the flowering of such knowledge invariably lifts our sights, bolsters our understanding of who we are, satisfies our curiosity and, by enabling us to be more rounded and capacious as human beings, prepares us to be better stewards of a shared purpose,” she said.

Malcolm gave himself an extraordinary education: Herodotus, Kant, Nietzsche, H. G. Wells’s History of the World, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk, Gregor Mendel’s Findings in Genetics, J. A. Roger’s Sex and Race, Will Durant, Mahatma Gandhi, and so on.

We believe so heartily that curiosity is crucial to societal achievement, moreover, that we have spent little energy in cultivating its attunement with societal generosity.