How My Family Chose Excellence Over Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Experiment

My parents chose the best for me. They chose to send me, a black boy, to a competitive, majority-white and Asian private school. I was challenged with rigorous homework, test routines, and expansive extracurriculars in athletics and the arts. Through my parents’ striving, I got the chance to learn, grow, and succeed – it’s unfathomable ...