The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal-and How to Set Them Right

"A book that both taught me so much and also kept me on the edge of my seat. It is an invaluable text from a supremely talented writer." -Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed

The definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education

America's colleges and universities have a shameful secret: they have never given Black people a fair chance to succeed. From its inception, our higher education system was not built on equality or accessibility, but on...