Dear Reader, It is 1831. A Black mother in Virginia is teaching her son to read by candlelight, with a primer hidden under the floorboards. If she is caught, she can be whipped. He can be sold. The white person who gave her the book...

“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong.” – W.E.B. Du Bois These words have been a drumbeat in my...