The thought of teaching about Africa can be overwhelming to teachers: so many countries, cultures, and challenges it’s difficult to know where to begin. Today’s authors work at Boston University’s ...
This semester, I have started teaching the Kiswahili language at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. It is a milestone, as it ...
Read full article: City Rescue Mission CEO hopes to change narrative on homelessness with 24 hours of ‘unfiltered conversations’ on a bench Emmitt Glynn teaches AP African American studies to a group ...
Knowledge of Africa’s history has long been dominated by Eurocentric perspectives, which has led to imbalanced forms of representation of the continent’s history and perpetuated preconceptions. To ...
The College Board said its new AP course has been nearly 10 years in the making. At high schools across the U.S. this school year, students will be able to take a brand new Advanced Placement course: ...
Darren Williams is one of two teachers in the Tulsa school district who signed up to teach the pilot version of the Advanced Placement African American Studies course this school year. During a ...
Nearly three decades ago, Florida passed a landmark measure requiring that Black history be taught in its public schools. “Knowledge is the antidote to the poison of prejudice,” Gov. Lawton Chiles (D) ...
The interactive, family-friendly event Teaching Africa Day returns for its ninth year to raise students’ awareness of the arts and history of Africa. The daylong event will be hosted in the ...
In March 2019 I traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to attend a conference – Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice. The conference was co-sponsored by the AMED ...
Lucia Hau-Yoon has spent nearly 30 years teaching Africans the art of mastering business dealings with the Chinese. A crucial part of this strategy is learning the language and helping them avoid ...