Higher education and the power to change

What struck me the most about the four and the movement they started, was the support and vital position of the educational (usually collegiate) institutions that backed protesting students. It raises questions of how access to higher education implicates the amount of power someone has to change. We need our high schools and we need our colleges. We need institution. It breaks my heart as a black woman that I can’t seriously consider an HBCU as anything more than a backup option. Simply because I want to pursue the most excellent path possible, and HBCUs the sites of great minds and movements, is not on that path.

Via Phillips