This week's podcast episode features a conversation between editor Sara Birmingham and Adam Harris, author of The State Must Provide. We were so excited to facilitate this important conversation. The State Must Provide serves as a definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education. Adam is a staff writer at The Atlantic where he has covered education and national politics since 2018. He was previously a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education where he covered federal education policy and historically black colleges and universities. In the interview, Adam and Sara spoke about some of the history of racial injustice within higher education and how the book came to be. It was also interesting to hear Sara's experience editing this book because she came on board after the initial draft was written.
Check out some of the reviews:
"This thought-provoking, timely, and engaging read gives space to subject matter that has largely gone ignored and unaddressed, and offers readers much food for thought on the topic of discrimination and systemic racism in higher education."
—Booklist
Find all of Adam's stories written for the Atlantic here.