In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won't provide. They talk about South Florida's Caribbean roots, the state's dark his...
“In the state of Florida, our education standards not only don’t prevent, but they require teaching Black history, all the important things. That’s part of our core curriculum,” DeSantis previously said. “We want education and not indoctrination.” But the official curriculu...
"In the state of Florida, our education standards not only don't prevent, but they require teaching Black history, all the important things. That's part of our core curriculum," DeSantis previously said. "We want education and not indoctrination." But the official curriculum for the course,...
Black History Month has now become an educational target in Florida schools. In the wake of the state’s strenuous laws on education, parents in one school system are now required to give their consent for their children to learn about the month-long celebration, which has been fed...
Smith and the community have spent the last 5 years working to restore the museum, which recently received a grant from the nonprofit Florida Humanities. The building is rich in history and tradition. It was once part of theGabriella Colored School,which at its inception in 1918, was part of...
College Boardsays it plans to release the framework for its pilot AP American Studies course on the first day of Black History Month afterFloridaofficialsrejected the curriculumand Gov.Ron Desantismade accusations that it aimed to indoctrinate students with ideologies not allowed in F...
Celebrate Black History Month across the country at museums, historic sites, restaurants, monuments and other places of importance for Black people in the U.S.
in history from Harvard, the first Black to do so at Harvard. 1896: George Washington Carver becomes director of agricultural research at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute. Carver, a chemist and botanist, was known for developing a system of crop rotation and working with peanuts, soybeans, and ...
As racial tensions escalate, campuses are seeing a surge in enrollment and a new brand of African-American activism.
But only a few states require public schools to teach Black history, includingFlorida,Illinoisand, since 2002,New Jersey. Most of those states don’t define what should be included in those lesson plans. Under New Jersey’s “Amistad” law, named for therebellion of enslaved Africanswho rose...