IDKMYDE: Why They're Still Fighting Over Black History Being Taught in Schools

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

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4.4 • 14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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If Black History Month started 100 years ago, why are people still arguing about what
gets taught? B Daht connects past erasure to present-day textbook battles.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	While they still fighting over black history in these schools.
0:09.6	I didn't know.
0:11.0	Welcome back, No-It-alls to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black
0:17.2	Effect Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled, I Didn't Know.
0:22.9	Maybe you didn't either.
0:24.4	I'm your host, BDOT, and my 13-year-old daughter goes to a predominantly white school.
0:29.7	Her mother and I have been blessed and fortunate enough to live wherever we want in the city of Charlotte.
0:35.1	And it just so happens that the side of Charlotte we live on, my baby girl is a minority.
0:39.9	And I ain't going to cap.
0:40.8	It's a very conflicting dynamic because her mother is a product of North Carolina
0:45.4	A&T State University.
0:47.0	I am a product of Winston-Salem State University.
0:49.7	And we know the importance of being black.
0:52.5	We are unapologetically black around here, and it's mandatory that we instilled that
0:56.8	in our baby girl.
0:58.1	So I share this podcast with her.
0:59.9	We have these conversations, and sometimes she takes them to school with her.
1:04.3	And sometimes she comes home so confused.
1:07.3	One time she came home and said, Dad, none of my teachers knew what an HBCU was.
1:13.0	How deflating. How can the teachers there even reach the black and brown children if they
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