Honors Humanities students had a chance to speak to Anika Prather, the founder and principal at The Living Water School in Maryland. Dr. Prather is also a professor at Howard University. Her research focuses on engaging students in reading the classics while connecting them to the literature of the African American experience. Her dissertation was about the Lived Experience of African American Students Reading Great Books Literature. She has spoken to college students about the history of Classics in the self-liberation of African-Americans, speaking about Frederick Douglass, MLK, Huey P Newton and others and shared her own experience studying Classics at St. Johns, and her thoughts on Plato’s “Apology” and “Meno.”