#meanwhile ...in Colombia 🇨🇴 📍

SWAHILI LANDS IN COLOMBIA

Today is world Swahili Day and the African language continues to make its mark on the world! Recently, Vice President of Colombia, Francia Márquez, announced it will be taught in schools in her country. She's just returned from a tour of Kenya 🇰🇪📍, Ethiopia 🇪🇹📍 and South Africa and is working to promote closer relations between Colombia and the African continent.

This program is revolutionary!

Meet LaMailede “Assata” Moore, a former educator and high school principal who has launched the Black Math Genius (BMG) program to address the dismal mathematics proficiency amongst Black students that continue to plague this country.⁠
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It was never intended to be a threat to white people. It was and will always be about Black students and their success.⁠
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The program is based on an African-centered pedagogy that puts Black students at the center of learning by teaching students the true origins of mathematics...Africa, by highlighting the many contributions by Black people to STEM fields and by building the mathematical confidence of Black students by showing them what’s possible.⁠

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