Black history was the most impactful course I took in high school I was bused to an overwhelmingly white high school as part of desegregation, and it was my Black history course that gave me a ...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: How should students learn about Black history? That question is the source of controversy and tension across the country, including in St. Louis, where a school board will soon ...

Celebrated Friday, it honors the day in 1865 that the last enslaved Black people learned they had been freed. There is no national curriculum or set of standards for teaching Black history in America.

School districts across the country launched professional development programs “to help their teachers teach Black history in their classrooms, really to kind of connect why these movements were ...

When she was in public school, Psalm said she only learned about mainstream Black figures in history, such as Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman.

In 2018, Rep. Ford filed a bill that established a Black History Curriculum Task Force to audit every Illinois school district's K-12 history curriculum. As part of the audit, school districts ...

Renee O'Connor stands in one of the classrooms where she teaches Black history at Miami Norland Senior High School, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) ...

Black history was the most impactful course I took in high school I was bused to an overwhelmingly white high school as part of desegregation, and it was my Black history course that gave me a ...