America Quote by Aldis Hodge

I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a…

— Aldis Hodge

To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and…

— Mona Charen

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery…

— Gerald Horne

We need to make sure that our children know different kinds of people, eat different kinds of food, and learn our true history. The…

— Christian Picciolini

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

— Rush Limbaugh

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

— Colson Whitehead

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained…

— Robert Purvis

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

— Sherley Anne Williams

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis