The National Museum for African American History and Culture features an exhibition titled “Making a Way Out of No Way.” A popular phrase among African Americans, this kind of thinking permeates the Black Freedom Struggle and the intellectual history behind that struggle. After reading Keisha Blain’s Set the World on Fire, it is clear to me that Dr. Blain has written a history that, for all intents and purposes, is an intellectual history of making a way out of no way. Read more