“A psychologist, teacher, and historian, Hilliard began his career in the Denver Public Schools. in Educational Psychology from the University of Denver. Do we look at our students and think — future president, future teacher, future garbage collector, future clerk, future executive, future computer whiz, future ax murderer, future bank robber? There are popular discussions on the worsening educational preparation for African-American students and ways of responding to it. There is no absence of discourse and literature produced by African-American scholars.”