Accurate Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

— Henry Louis Gates

There's a lot of black history - my history - that I don't know about.

— Alison Hammond

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

— Andre Gray

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

— William Barr

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

— Ed Dwight

Black history is American history.

— Morgan Freeman

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The…

— Rumaan Alam

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know…

— Yolanda King

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of…

— Huey Newton

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our…

— Erykah Badu

In regards to black people, we have a treasure trove of information that nobody else really has.

— Linda Johnson Rice