During the early 1980s, Jawanza Kunjufu, an African American educational consultant, mentor and author, emerged as one of the first educators to take aim at Black male achievement, addressing the system’s flaws and encouraging us to work towards correcting them.
In his highly acclaimed text, “The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Males,” published in 1983, along with dozens of other subsequent works, including “To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group,” Kunjufu asserted that the greatest challenge facing Black male educational success was neither the race or gender of the teacher but rather teacher expectations, time on task and classroom management.
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