Teaching Black history from Black perspectives means re-visiting the same stories we might be used to hearing, and challenging ourselves to tell them differently. Experts warn that ‘whitewashing’ Black history in educational settings fuels resentment against civil rights groups demanding justice and equity in the present. 

USA TODAY race and diversity reporter N’dea Yancey-Bragg hopes people focus on issues like oppression, Black resistance, the African diaspora, Black excellence, and intersectional Black identities when teaching Black history.

This month, Yancey-Bragg wrote about how Black entrepreneurs in Tulsa, Oklahoma successfully revived the Greenwood business district, or Black Wall Street, after the Tulsa Massacre in 1921. And businesses there are still re-building.

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