When I first met Bob Moses, I was potentially too eager to meet him. For years, his book Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project had taken over several facets of my pedagogical imagination, from how I taught students about integers (even when I couldn’t take them on trips myself) to slopes and equations. Not only did I have the privilege of meeting civil rights and Black liberation activists who were living legends like Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, and Felipe Luciano, I also found tutelage in educational giants like Pedro Noguera, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Karen Lewis. But one man – among a handful – sat at the intersection of the fight for civil rights and education. Friends and acquaintances across the board would relay stories about him, encouraging me to find him whenever I got the opportunity.
That, I did. But before I would, I had the pleasure of sitting in the audience for a panel with him and several luminaries as part of the American Education Research Association’s conference in NYC, 2018.
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