The young black writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in his celebrated
book, Between the World and Me
(published 2015), speaking of his beloved Howard University writes: “It was
still a school, after all. I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I
could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations
of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare
your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made
for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s
interests” (48).
Our slogan at Original World Press is: Scholarship to the
People, the People to Scholarship. Our publications bring to African descendants—and,
indeed, ultimately, to all humanity—the freedom that is the pursuit of knowing.
But FREEDOM ISN’T FREE. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to publish our
books; and they are priced to ensure accessibility to our students. We
consistently subsidize the publication of these books with OUR PERSONAL FUNDS.
FREEDOM ISN’T FREE
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