ABSTRACT
Generations of black people have known what it means to see education as the practice of freedom. It is the collective responsibility both to people as black people and to the academic communities in which people participate and to which people belong, to assume a primary role in establishing and maintaining academic and social spaces where in the principles of education as the practice of freedom are promoted. Most importantly, people must call attention to those aspects of black experience here at Yale-educational and social-where blackness is affirmed, where education as the practice of freedom is expressed. It must enrich and expand the educational experience-the intellectual possibilities-of the Yale community, affirming in this effort the particular presence and work of black people. The commitment to transforming the lives of black people, to "racial uplift", to ending racial domination, was perfectly compatible with studying particular disciplines.
