EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Our second solution is to establish and manage our own school system, which will encompass:

New K-12 public charter and private schools
New colleges, universities and technical schools focused on real-world community and economic development.
New medical, law, and business schools focused on addressing the unique needs and interests of the Black community.

All of these institutions will utilize an African-centered, applied knowledge curricula, and will be funded through monthly membership contributions, per pupil funding allocations, and our Sovereign Development Fund.

SOLUTION 2. BUILD NEW SCHOOLS, COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

THE PROBLEMS

African people have been brainwashed through the American education system. Mainstream curricula often omit, marginalize or distort African history, presenting it through a Eurocentric lens that overlooks the contributions, achievements, and diverse cultures of the African continent. Furthermore, there are virtually no independent Black educational institutions to properly educate Black people and offer a counter-narrative.

THE SOLUTIONS

To solve these problems BAF will create an independent education system that includes the development of an online African-centered curriculum, and building new K-12 schools, as well as colleges and universities, including medical, law, business and technical schools. These institutions will serve as pipelines for new culturally-trained Black teachers and professors, and as incubators for African-led solutions to local and global problems.

Black women only make up 4.8% of the U.S. public school system; Black men only 1.3%. This has a profound impact on Black student performance. For example, a 2017 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Black male students who had at least one Black teacher in elementary school were 13% more likely to graduate high school and 19% more likely to go on to college. Similarly, Black female students showed improved academic outcomes when taught by Black educators. Imagine what they could accomplish if they had almost all Black teachers?

BAF will educate and hire a new generation of culturally-trained Black teachers to work in our new schools, colleges and universities. These teachers will provide a culturally-relevant education in all subject areas, provide new role models for Black children, and become part of the fabric of prosperous new Black communities.

SOLUTION 3. HIRE BLACK TEACHERS & EDUCATORS

SOLUTION 2. DEVELOP A CULTURALLY-RELEVANT K-12 CURRICULUM

"You can't teach what you don't know." Our first solution is to develop African-centered curriculum for all subjects and grade levels for teachers, and a universal online African-centered curriculum for parents and independent learning that provides a more inclusive, accurate, and holistic understanding of African history, culture, and identity.

Through our partnership with Education for Life Academy, we offer all members free access to the Standing on the Shoulders of Giants online "Teach & Learn" African history curriculum. The curriculum begins with the origins of all humanity in Africa, not slavery, and charts the development of world history, highlighting Africa's role in pioneering virtually all forms of knowledge, including spirituality, and creating some of the world's most spectacular civilizations, such as ancient Kemet/Egypt, Nubia, Axum, Great Zimbabwe, ancient Ghana and more.

BAF also offers live online Black history classes, documentaries, movies and special programming including Black History & Women's History Month and Kwanzaa celebrations to keep Black history alive all year long. We also host fun Black history games like Black History BINGO and Black History Jeopardy!