NPR

Views From The Classroom On The New AP African-American Studies Course

There are a lot of different Advanced Placement history courses out there: art history, European history, U.S. history. Now, after a decade in development, there finally is an AP course focused on ...
Los Angeles Times

Slavery, reparations, racism. No topics are off limits in this Black history AP class

Inside a Dorsey High School classroom — decorated with African flags, dolls in colorful African clothing and a wall of fame that included pictures of Thurgood Marshall, Wilma Rudolph and Colin Powell ...
NBC News

African American AP course now offered to high schools across the U.S.

For the first time in academic history, high school students across the nation now have the option to take an African American Advanced Placement course. As part of the new pilot program introduced by ...
Time

African-American History Finally Gets Its Own AP Class—And Historians Say It’s More Important Than Ever

On the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of. Only one ...
USA Today

First AP African American studies class to be offered in some high schools this fall

Some high school students across the country can take a new Advanced Placement course this fall. AP African American Studies will be a class option for some students, on top of traditional AP subjects ...