This volume highlights Derrick Bell's influence as the first African American to earn tenure at the Harvard Law School and author of Race, Racism, and American Law on a number of prominent education and legal scholars by identifying some of his specific work and how they have used it to inform their own thinking and practice.
Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
William F. Tate, IV is the Dean of the Graduate School and Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.