Golden My Year High School is nestled in downtown Milwaukee. Nearly two thirds of the students

there are black.

We talk about arts, we talk about cultural trends, we talk about the diaspora outside of

the United States as well, which might not be included in some of the other classes that

I've taught before.

That's Alex Yankee, a teacher at Golden My Year. He's talking there about the new advanced

placement course in African American Studies, which he's been teaching at the school.

And during a recent lesson, Yankee pulls up a photograph of Jamaican activist Marcus

Garvey, who supported the back to African movement in the 1920s.

We've looked at this a couple of times throughout this class, right? We've talked about people

who supported separate ideas and people who supported more like accommodation, store,

integrationist ideas as well.

Now, the college board, which creates AP courses, has been developing this curriculum

for a decade. Devon Hayden, one of the students in Yankee's class, says the material in the

course goes deeper than your average social studies class.

I think taking this class really helped me understand that there's a broader history

besides slavery and civil rights movement that we can all stand and know about.

And being able to learn about all of that really just kind of made my education a lot

more wholesome.

Right now, this course is in a pilot phase. It's being taught only at 60 high schools across

the US with plans to expand to hundreds of schools next year.

But even before the curriculum was finalized, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida

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