Afros Quote by Jay Saunders Redding

“If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school achievement as…

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out…

— David Roediger

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

— Lynn Swann

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

— Ellsworth Huntington

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily.…

— John Henrik Clarke

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“These remarks should not be interpreted as simply an effort to move the gaze of African-American studies to a different site. I do not…

— Toni Morrison

“Whether they are able to enact it as lived practice or not, many white folks active in anti-racist struggle today are able to acknowledge…

— bell hooks

“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars still faithfully…

— Chancellor Williams

The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and…

— Bell Hooks

“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build…

— Booker T. Washington