It's great that the school district is offering a meaningful Black history course. This course is mandatory for Freshman students and specifically designed to connect Black people in history and black people today, as history should be taught.
As meaningful as this course is, it should not replace the history of Black people's treatment and contribution throughout the world and USA and must be taught from K-12. As a commission, we must institutionalize our work so that after planting the seed, progress continues. Reaching out and acknowledging schools following the Amistad Act would be one way to do that.
Original article: Cherry Hill school district becomes first in N.J. to require an African American history course in high school.
The change was prompted by a group of students who pushed officials to provide a more comprehensive curriculum.