Forbes

Florida Rejects AP African American Studies Course—Here’s What It Actually Teaches

Florida has drawn widespread controversy for rejecting an AP African American Studies course that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his administration claim “lacks an educational purpose” and pushes a ...
The Hill

AP African American studies will be offered for the first time. Here’s what students may expect

For the first time ever, high school students will have the opportunity to take an Advanced Placement course in African American Studies. The College Board introduced the pilot program earlier this ...
Los Angeles Times

Watering down AP African American studies preserves the myth that racism exists solely in the past

A new Advanced Placement African American studies course, piloted across 60 schools during the current school year, has been celebrated by scholars of race and ethnicity and criticized by conservative ...
The Baltimore Sun

African American studies classes are important in schools like mine

I am a white student at Hereford High School — statistically the whitest public high school in Baltimore County — and when I signed up for an Advanced Placement African American Studies class, I was ...
Time

This AP African American Studies Teacher Invited TV Cameras Into His Class to Avoid Controversy. It Worked

Emmitt Glynn teaches AP African American Studies on Feb. 17 Staff Writer When it came time for Emmitt Glynn to teach the lesson on the Black Panthers in his AP African American Studies class, he says ...
PBS

Inside the African American studies class praised by some and fiercely opposed by others

The school year is coming to a close and with it, the first year of Advanced Placement African American studies, an interdisciplinary class by the College Board that has attracted praise from ...
Education Week

Can South Carolina Schools Teach AP African American Studies? It’s Complicated

Schools in South Carolina seeking to offer the new AP African American Studies course this fall must seek direct authorization from the College Board, and ensure their instruction meets college-level ...
The Washington Post

Did politics scrub ‘systemic’ from AP African American studies plan?

Writing and editing the Advanced Placement course framework was a tense exercise in a polarized America Feb. 19 at 6:00 a.m. A politically charged adjective popped up repeatedly in the evolving plans ...
CNN

AP course in African American Studies brings Black history to life for these Tulsa students

“It’s the largest collection of African and African American artifacts in the world,” Williams answered. Williams is one of two teachers at the school teaching the Advanced Placement course in African ...
Los Angeles Times

Slavery, reparations, racism. No topics are off limits in this Black history AP class

Inside a Dorsey High School classroom — decorated with African flags, dolls in colorful African clothing and a wall of fame that included pictures of Thurgood Marshall, Wilma Rudolph and Colin Powell ...