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Cherry Hill School District becomes first in NJ to mandate African American history course for graduation

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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