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Systems. Chip in to power Color Of Change's campaigns for education
justice!
Hi, John:
This past week has been hard for Black students. For the first time in
their K-12 educational experience, they would have had access to an
Advanced Placement African American Studies course —the only college-level
course available that would have touched on the Black Lives Matter
Movement, the concept of intersectionality and lessons related to the
Black experience.^1 But under the direct supervision of the Florida State
Board of Education, Gov. Ron DeSantis quickly quashed AP African American
Studies as if Black people’s lived experiences don’t matter.
Voicing the concerns of Black students and Floridians, Color Of Change
member Brianna Beadle launched a petition demanding an immediate reversal
of this decision. With 25,000 signatures and counting from members like
you, it’s clear that Brianna is working hard to make the Florida
Department of Education feel the pressure.
[ [link removed] ]Please, make a special gift to our first end-of-month fundraising goal
of the year. John, we need your support if we want AP African
American Studies to remain.
[ [link removed] ]POWER OUR EFFORTS TO #DEFENDBLACKHISTORY!
This blatant attempt to censor Black history has been endorsed by major
corporations such as Walmart and AT&T, both of which have people on their
payrolls and executive boards who are members of the Florida State Board
of Education and its leadership who back DeSantis’ decision. These
leaders are simply saying the quiet part out loud, and ultimately
represent the values and priorities of these corporations: Cultural
exclusion and upholding the status quo.
John, AP African American Studies is the first and only
Advanced Placement course to be denied certification in the program’s more
than 70-year history.^2 Other courses that uplift other groups’ histories
and center whiteness, like AP European History, have remained unscathed
and largely exempt from scrutiny. Unless Walmart, AT&T and other
corporations hold to account their executives who have a key role in this
education decision, the worst is yet to come for Black history erasure in
K-12 curricula.
This is where we need you to come in. [ [link removed] ]Can you donate $20 or more to our
end-of-month fundraising goal so that we have the resources needed to run
a robust campaign against these corporations?
[ [link removed] ]YES, I WILL CHIP IN!
Until justice is real,
The Color Of Change Team
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1. Steve Contorno, “DeSantis administration rejects proposed AP African
American Studies class in Florida high schools,” CNN Politics, January
19, 2023,
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[@normative], January 21, 2023, “This is from Florida’s education
commissioner, depressingly. Reflect for a moment on the incredible
degree of intellectual insecurity it reveals,” [Tweet], Twitter,
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2. Jeremy C. Young [@jeremycyoung], January 23, 2023, “A basic fact
about Florida’s ban on AP African American Studies: since the creation
of the Advanced Placement program in 1952, no state has ever refused
to certify an AP course until now. No state has put politics ahead of
students’ access to early college credit until now,” [Tweet], Twitter,
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