Leo Morris laments about the decision to offer courses in Africa, African-American, and Latinos studies. Morris go so far as to state diversity obsession as just a feel good moment. When in fact it will teach about inclusion. Africa and African-American history has always been taught in schools for a long time. I remember, learning about slavery, however, a more inclusive and detailed telling of Africa and African-American history will give students a much more diverse history of Africa and its people.
Kweku Akan and his staff has been teaching Africa history at Weisser Park Center. It is good to know, that his voice as a Fort Wayne Community Schools Board member is not just talk, but he willing to put it into practice. Baba Akan has taken many students to countries in Africa. What a life lesson for these students!
The Rev. Michael Latham, of the NAACP, has decided that there is a riff between Dr. Wendy Robinson and Baba Akan, even going so far as to call for a rally against Baba Akan at the FWCS school board meeting scheduled for September 25, 2006 at 6:00 p.m. From reading the article published in the Journal-Gazette, Rev Latham must be mistaken, and I hope he uses the time to apologizes to both Dr.Robinson and Baba Akan instead of making much ado about nothing.
Very interesting -- never having been to Fort Wayne, I never knew how much African-American history and community there were there. It's nice to know.
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