African-American history

• 
• SOURCE: Indianapolis Recorder
  9-19-13
  

  'History Makers' to Visit 2 IPS High Schools

  History Makers, the United Sates' largest African American video oral history collection, sends community leaders to visit schools in cities like Indianapolis in order to make history both inspiring and more approachable for high school students.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  8-7-13
  

  Henry Louis Gates to present a PBS series exploring 5 centuries of African-American history

  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — After a tragedy like the Trayvon Martin killing, calls routinely arise for a conversation about race.But Henry Louis Gates thinks the more direct way for structural change is through schools and their curriculum.That’s what he’s hoping will happen with “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” a six-hour PBS documentary series that traces 500 years of black history.“To tell the whole sweep of African-American history — no one’s tried to do that. That was what we were crazy enough to do,” Gates said in an interview on Wednesday....