Cherry Hill School District becomes first in NJ to mandate African American history course for graduation
Cherry Hill School District becomes first in NJ to mandate African American history course for graduation Melanie Burney, The Philadelphia Inquirer © JESSICA GRIFFIN/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Some of the students who helped push for a mandatory African American history course are shown (Left to Right): Joy Thomas, Machayla Randall, Xandria McKinley, and Obinna Okorie, in front of Cherry Hill East High School last June. Beginning this fall, Cherry Hill public school students will be required to take a course on African American history in order to graduate. The Cherry Hi...