Today a very special one hour interview with MIT professor of history, Craig S. Wilder. We discuss his new book, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities”. Professor Wilder reveals the all to hidden relationship between some of the country’s most elite centers of learning and the institution of slavery. How were universities like Harvard and Yale complicit in one of the most tragic chapters of US History.
Original airdate: April 17, 2014
