The 2016 Charles H. Thompson lecture invokes the radical transformative power and possibilities of education research in the Black Liberation tradition of study, struggle and returning what we learn to the people. In this lecture Dr. Joyce Elaine King delineates the African philosophical and epistemological roots of this tradition in the works of historical Black educators and theoreticians as well as scholar activists today whose inquiries also challenge the myth of "objectivity" in social science research. This eurocratic paradigm, which admonishes us to be "objective," often creates role conflict and alienates us from our people. Instead, the Black Liberation tradition in education as well as research favors partisan scientific inquiry and praxis in the interest of equity, racial justice and human freedom. The lecture examined these issues in Black education and research in the U.S. and the African Diaspora in keeping with the aims of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent.