Equal Education: Demand North Carolina to Change the School Curriculum!

African American drop out rates are increasing and graduation rates are decreasing. African American history is not implemented in the school curriculum. We are taught the prominent leaders are Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, yet we still have little knowledge of these leaders and others. We are taught slavery, and civil rights, but they over shadow all of the contributions that have been made to society by African Americans.
America’s youth is growing up ignorant. With little knowledge of African American history we are allowing young black kids to grow up thinking they can’t be anything in life aside from a basketball player or rapper. We are giving them little self-esteem to how much potential they truly have. If only we were taught about the people in our history just like us; growing up in poverty, with little education, who still contribute to this nation.