![]() ![]() I had really great professors and classmates who challenged me. Part of it grew out of my own experience attending Alabama A&M University. What made you decide to take such a deep dive into the history of Black higher education? I was struck in reading your book, Adam, by how frustrated and almost incredulous you were at how deeply ingrained the racial barriers were in the higher-education system. ![]() This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. I caught up with Adam to ask him about the book. There was more to tell, and the result is a book released this month: The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal - and How to Set Them Right. ![]() Harris, who now writes for The Atlantic, felt that his reporting on inequities in higher education had only scratched the surface. In 2018, Adam Harris, then a Chronicle reporter, brought our readers to Mississippi Valley State University for an inside look at how the Ayers settlement, the culmination of one of the longest-running civil-rights cases in American history, had failed to adequately atone for centuries of discrimination. ![]()
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