PBS NewsHour

Students reflect on their modern-day heroes

Clip: 02/24/2021 | 2m 46s | Video has closed captioning.

Black History Month expands students’ understanding of the Black experience in American history. But one teacher in Akron, Ohio wanted her students to see that Black history isn’t something that happened in the past, it happens every single day through each of them. She worked with our Student Reporting Labs program to record these reflections from students.