My HBCU Taught Me What Authority Looks—and Sounds—Like NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe found her voice, and learned to stand in her power, at a historically black college. She’s not the only one.

James C. Scott, who died July 19 at age 87, was one of the most original and radical political theorists of the past century. Beginning as a political scientist studying Southeast Asia and then ...

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe found her voice, and learned to stand in her power, at a historically black college. She’s not the only one.