“The psalm says joy comes in the morning, but it doesn’t say it always lasts.”
“A bald eagle in flight is elegance to behold. The sudden, violent flaps of its wings are broken by sublime extension as it locks onto a breeze and glides.”
“The recent profusion of Black mayors in the South is striking when you consider that, not so long ago, there weren’t any at all.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Ayers case became a landmark for other states that sought to settle disputes over inequity and segregation in higher education. The problem is, it didn’t exactly work.
Photography by Alyssa Schukar
Walter Kimbrough’s Higher Calling
“On an overcast day in February, Walter M. Kimbrough Jr. stepped off a plane in Washington, D.C., for one of the highest-profile meetings of his professional career.”
“This was an opportunity to interview the secretary. I booked a ticket.”
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