“I just learned last year who Shirley Chisolm was. And Ida B. Wells.”
Kamryn Whitley just graduated from Lakeland High School in Suffolk.
During her senior year, she took a new elective class on African American history that claims to expand cultural awareness in Virginia high schools.
“It allowed me to go back and look [at] exactly where I came from, who my ancestors were, who my family was,” said Whitley.
Jamal Jackson, now a senior at King’s Fork High School in Suffolk, said the class was eye-opening.
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