While traveling to Kenya and Uganda earlier this year, Harper College's Mukila Maitha was thinking about the big picture. "Human history in East Africa spans the entire length of hominid evolution," ...

Introducing 'Africa' / Jennifer E. Coffman -- Africa: which way forward?: an interdisciplinary approach / Todd Cleveland -- Why we need African history / Kathleen Smythe -- Answering the 'so what' ...

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 ...

Emmitt Glynn teaches AP African American studies to a group of Baton Rouge Magnet High School students on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023 in Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge Magnet High School in Louisiana is one ...

The purpose of the CAAAS Faculty Teaching, Research & Creative Work Awards (aka “CAAAS Faculty Awards”) are to assist University of Colorado Boulder faculty with their teaching, research, and creative ...

Ahenewa El-Amin has taught African American literature and AP English Literature and Composition for years at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Ky. She heard that Florida state officials moved to ...

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 ...

A South African province is preparing to make Holocaust studies a mandatory part of the school curriculum. The Cape Town Holocaust Centre recently conducted a four-day workshop for some 50 people in ...

After the Florida Department of Education (DOE) updated its standards for teaching African-American studies, Vanderbilt Prof. Michael Eric Dyson compared the changes to teaching "good things" about ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – More fallout over Florida’s New Academic Standards that require educators to teach about the personal benefits African Americans received during slavery. A Duval County history ...