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“One important aspect of black children's learning is that they tend to be significantly more sensitive to whether their teacher likes and believes in…

— Michele Stephenson

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and…

— Bell Hooks

The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad.…

— Ashley Graham

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in…

— Chaka Fattah

Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black people, they…

— Michail Antonio

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what…

— Clint Smith

“When the norms associated with race take on a static and determining quality, they can be very difficult to undermine. Students who receive a…

— Pedro A. Noguera

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of…

— Michael N. Castle

To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening…

— Chaka Fattah

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four…

— Big Sean

My high school coach is an African American studies teacher, so I respect his perspective as an older white guy who has a master's…

— Fred VanVleet