I'm Kimberly Akin store. This is on point growing up in a house where there's all type of like

African-American just artifacts that are everywhere. There's King. There's Malcolm, but there's also

Ali there's Robinson and this culture fuels you to be proud of who you are

That's Gianni Clarkson. He grew up in Detroit in the 1980s

His dad was a history teacher, but Gianni says his earliest history lessons didn't take place in the classroom

You know field trips to Motown Motown record down

I went to school in downtown Detroit and there's a major church that's in downtown Detroit second-everdizer

Which is the last stop of the underground railroad?

So it was everywhere for me

But the people and events Gianni learned about at home and in his neighborhood didn't always show up when he was at school

Sometimes he says history about black Americans was missing. I remember one time doing a teacher

That was white was teaching my World War one. I mean rose my hand was like

Well, are we going to talk about the Harlem Hell fighters? And it went who?

Well, that's not in the text the Harlem Hell fighters were a group of black soldiers in World War one

Who fought with the French army because many white Americans refused to serve with black soldiers?

Gianni went on to become a history teacher himself

He taught middle and high school in Washington DC from more than a decade

He's now an educational consultant and those gaps he noticed as a kid in the way black history was taught

He says they're still there today the lack of attention paid to reconstruction

Woo-hoo, but if you look at most

So just studies

Standards reconstruction is like and we all lived happily ever after the end and it's it's not true

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