This article has been produced in partnership between The 74 and the XQ Institute. Just before the start of the new school year for D.C. Public Schools, dozens of people gathered under a bright August sun in the northeast neighborhood of Deanwood. They were there to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a local institution: H.D. […]
For Black people, education has meant freedom in the face of America’s long history of anti-literacy and school segregation laws intended to oppress the entire race.