Teachers in Florida have said they’re confused by the state’s new African American history standards and it’s not hard to see why. While the new standards rightfully put more emphasis on African ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – More fallout over Florida’s New Academic Standards that require educators to teach about the personal benefits African Americans received during slavery. A Duval County history ...

In 1777, Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery, and the state generally prides itself on this history. But as I have learned from preparing teachers there to teach Black history, that ...

Miami Norland Senior High School teacher Renee O’Connor in her classroom on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Back in February of 2022, Renee O’Connor was a finalist to be Miami-Dade County Public School’s ...

Ed Allison, standing outside Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, helped create the curriculum for the state’s African American history elective. He will be teaching Advanced Placement African ...

MIAMI-- A decision by the State Board of Education to approve new academic standards for instruction about African American history has ignited a firestorm of criticism about the changes, including ...

TULSA, Okla. — The schoolchildren arrived at the community center's cafeteria on a Saturday morning, their parents in tow. Some adults came without children, because they, too, wanted to learn the ...

Teachers, students, community members and Teamsters marched to Miami-Dade school board headquarters on Wednesday to protest Florida's recently enacted Black history standards in the statewide ...

Nearly three decades ago, Florida passed a landmark measure requiring that Black history be taught in its public schools. “Knowledge is the antidote to the poison of prejudice,” Gov. Lawton Chiles (D) ...

Ahenewa El-Amin has taught African American literature and AP English Literature and Composition for years at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Ky. She heard that Florida state officials moved to ...

As states around the country have been adopting policies and passing laws restricting how teachers can discuss race and racism in the classroom, the School District of Philadelphia is continuing to ...

Nearly a century ago, the historian Carter G. Woodson started a movement to teach Black history in America’s schools. First called Negro History Week and now Black History Month, it has been an oasis ...