Sublime

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

As with many HBCUs, Storer was once a high school in addition to a college. The first president of postcolonial Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe, completed his high school education at Storer before going on to Howard University.

In virtually every competitive professional school in this country, one will find a critical mass of Morehouse and Spelman graduates; the same is true of investment banks, corporate law firms, and doctoral programs. Even if students are only in Atlanta for four years, the sheen of that place, the discipline, doesn’t rub off. And it does strike a co

I don’t think Michelle minds being our new muse. I think she gets it. We little brown girls—drunk off The Cosby Show, sobered up by life, and a little suicidal—we need her.