"My family is from Florida. My grandmother fought off the Klan with a shotgun, right? That's Florida," he says. "The oxygen was actually sucked out over the last week for this guy down in Florida." The college board had a huge celebration at the Museum of African-American studies and brought the original 60 teachers back to town.
The College Board piloted an AP course on African American Studies. Then, after conservative pushback, it debuted a revised curriculum. But the group insists it’s not caving to political pressure.
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and edited by Matt Collette and Noel King, who also hosted. We had help with today’s show from Sarah Darville, national managing editor for Chalkbeat.
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