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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Cheyanne Mumphrey and Sharon Lurye

SHOCKING: Black history ap class rejected in florida catches on 0046287c 3c01 4398 8ae3 b2f717b49f78 | Mind Blowing Facts

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Compared with her other classes, high school senior Kahlila Bandele said a lesson this week spanning topics from Afro-Caribbean migration to jazz offered a welcome shift in perspective.

The discussion in her Advanced Placement course on African American studies touched on figures from Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X to Jimi Hendrix and Rihanna. In her AP European History course, she said, “we’re not discussing Black people at all” — even though they were colonized by Europeans.

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