Today, the College Board released curriculum materials for the course's expansion to hundreds of additional high schools in the next academic year.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Compared with her other classes, high school senior Kahlila Bandele said a lesson this week spanning topics from Afro-Caribbean migration to jazz offered a welcome shift in perspective.
People are also reading… The students in Baton Rouge were aware of the political controversy over the course. But the class on Monday was filled with discussion of the Négritude and Negrismo movements that celebrated Black culture and a painting by the Afro-Asian-Latino artist Wifredo Lam. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio "No one is excluded from this course: the Black artists and inventors whose achievements have come to light; the Black women and men, including gay Americans, who played pivotal roles in the Civil Rights movements; and people of faith from all backgrounds who contributed to the antislavery and Civil Rights causes. Everyone is seen," he said.
For Malina Ouyang, 17, taking the class helped fill gaps in what she has been taught."Taking this class," she said,"I realized how much is not said in other classes."
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