Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Derrick Bell
Born: November 6, 1930
Died: October 5, 2011 (aged 80)
Bio: Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was the first tenured African-American professor of law at Harvard Law School and is largely credited as one of the originators of critical race theory. He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 1991 until his death.
Known for:
- Faces at the Bottom of the Well (1992)
- And we are not saved (1987)
- Race, racism, and American law (1973)
- Silent Covenants (2004)