The pilot program will appear in 60 high schools this year.
“AP African American Studies is not CRT,” Gates, Jr. toldSeveral states, including Florida, have banned Critical Race Theory from the classroom. “It’s not the 1619 Project. It is a mainstream, rigorously vetted, academic approach to a vibrant field of study, one half a century old in the American academy, and much older, of course, in historically Black colleges and universities.”
The course includes in-depth lessons on Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast and medical programs; the Reconstruction Era and how it has shaped mass incarceration today; and how to look at discrimination through overlapping racial and gender identities. This is a course that many have been requesting for quite some time, and the College Board said it was a decade in the making. Previously, the Board did not offer a class because many surveyed colleges said they would not accept college credit for the class. When asked again in 2020, more colleges were not only open but eager to accept course credits for AP African American Studies.
“The events surrounding George Floyd and the increased awareness and attention paid towards issues of inequity and unfairness and brutality directed towards African Americans caused me to wonder, ‘Would colleges be more receptive to an AP course in this discipline than they were 10 years ago?’” Trevor Packer, head of the College Board’s AP program, told
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