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The article discusses importance of liberal education for advancing racial healing and transformation. Topics discussed include advancement of art of listening as a catalyst for moral imagination through liberal education, engagement of communities in racial healing through destabilization of the persistent structures of racism, and role of higher education in racial reconciliation.

The article focuses on the urgency of addressing the race discrimination problem in the U.S. in the mid of Black Lives Matter protests, White supremacy, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include the lack of diversity among college faculty and administrators and racist iconography on campuses and efforts of college presidents and chancellors to assure students and staff of their commitment to diversity and inclusion.

In this article, the author discusses historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who is best known as spokesperson for African American rights and against racism. It informs Du Bois has promoted liberal education as an important ideal of educating democracy. It also discusses Bois efforts in promoting racial and social justice.