-When we -!think historically about schools
-and we think historically -about black education.
-!Since the advent of the public -schools,
-Black people have had to try -!to create, reinvent, reimagine
-schools so that it fulfills -!a purpose larger than servitude.
-!And that has been longstanding, -so much
-!so that we know that education -!literally, literally literacy,
-was punishable -!by death for enslaved Africans.