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Florida rejected the Advanced Placement course in African American studies in January due to its lessons on reparations, the Black […] The post Florida officials discussed ‘lack of opposing viewpoints’ before banning AP African American studies course appeared first on TheGrio.
State officials at times pushed to include perspectives from “the other side” but failed to elaborate whose perspective they wanted added.
It was unbelievable that even with the energy-sapping fights he engages in to defend his throne and the stunts in the movie, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman (King T’Chala) was nursing the pains of colon cancer. His death exactly three years ago on 29 September 2020, revealed that fact. This epic movie where he plays a…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration officials opposed the College Board’s new Advanced Placement African American studies course due to its lack of “opposing viewpoints” on slavery.A new report from the Miami Herald sheds more context on Florida’s fight against the College Board and Black history specifically.According to internal state comments, the reviewers believed the A.P. course’s depiction of chattel slavery did not promote both sides of history. One lesson on how Europeans ben
I followed with some interest this week a story out of Arkansas, of all places, that brought back long unthought of memories of my junior high school days.