Afi-Odelia E.

Scruggs

Let students ‘do’ history for themselves.

When you’re the only person of color in your class, school can become a struggle between two worlds.

Kawania Wooten’s voice tightens when she describes the struggle she’s having at the school her son attends. When his class created a timeline of civilization, Wooten saw the Greeks, the Romans and the Incas. But nothing was said about Africa, even though the class has several African American students.