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Machayla Randall can t wait to dazzle the Battleship New Jersey on prom night in her fire-engine red sequined gown and custom-sewn mask made from post-alteration fabric remnants.
The waterfront celebration is part of the Cherry Hill East students senior event trifecta: prom, senior trip and graduation.
When the school year began, she expected those rights of passage for graduating seniors wouldn t be possible because of COVID-19. The pandemic largely stripped those events from the class of 2020, after all.
Randall, 18, hoped for the best.
Not only will most graduations, proms and senior trips go on for South Jersey teens, but they could look a bit more normal after Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday loosened restrictions on outdoor gatherings and catering halls.
The Salem City High schooler didn t learn the story at school.
It s a piece of Black history passed to her dad Walter Hudson at his barbershop, then told to Heavenlee at home.
African American studies are electives in many of New Jersey s public high schools.
As the state s youngest race equity activists awakened last summer to re-energize movements, Black high schoolers say they re thirsty for more on African Americans contributions to the United States.
And they think their classmates of every color should learn those stories, too. Every race, every culture has contributed something important to our (American) history, said Cherry Hill East High School senior Machayla Randall.
Cherry Hill School District becomes first in NJ to mandate African American history course for graduation Melanie Burney, The Philadelphia Inquirer © JESSICA GRIFFIN/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Some of the students who helped push for a mandatory African American history course are shown (Left to Right): Joy Thomas, Machayla Randall, Xandria McKinley, and Obinna Okorie, in front of Cherry Hill East High School last June.
Beginning this fall, Cherry Hill public school students will be required to take a course on African American history in order to graduate.
The Cherry Hill school board voted 8-0 Tuesday night to make the South Jersey district the first in New Jersey to mandate the course for its more than 11,000 students. The push has garnered national attention and could prompt other districts to follow.
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