Black history should be made a mandatory part of education in England to combat hatred and prevent racist riots, a leading activist has urged.
Lavinya Stennett, founder of the Black Curriculum, highlighted the dangers of restricting black history to just one month or limiting its inclusion to schools with diverse student populations in urban areas. She warned that failing to make diverse teaching widely accessible could have serious consequences, referencing the riots in England and Northern Ireland during the summer.
“As long as we place black history as something only for October, as long as we continue to view black history as something only for black people, or focus it solely on metropolitan areas while ignoring rural regions where many of the riots started, we will continue to see young people remain ignorant, and racism will be fueled,” Stennett told The Guardian
