Columnist Desiree Cooper focuses on the work of Michele Ronnick, associate professor of classics at Wayne State. Ronnick has compiled a traveling photo exhibit featuring several African-American classicists, including William Sanders Scarborough, who was born into slavery and became a self-taught intellectual following the civil war. The WSU professor says she was awed by Scarborough's achievements and bewildered that a man of his stature has been largely forgotten by history. \"He learns Greek and Latin at a time when people believed African Americans couldn\'t be taught these subjects," she pointed out. "I could be writing about the beauty of Cicero\'s letters, but why not raise up another American hero -- an intellectual hero?\"