Alarmed by the racial and socioeconomic barriers inherent in education and the profound impact on Black children and communities of color, Tracy Swinton Bailey sought a little more than a decade ago to do something about it.  

There are times in life that alter a person’s view of the world. For Ed FitzGerald, it was the summer of 1950 when, as a Catholic boy growing up in a blue-collar Kansas City neighborhood, he got a job working for the hometown Blues baseball organization.

Inger Burnett-Zeigler counts herself among the many today who wear the badge of strong Black woman with honor. All too often, the esteemed Northwestern University clinical psychologist says, their toughness is tied to acquaintance with suffering.