AfricanAmerican Tag

Hill Street Studios An African-American culture class that has helped change the lives of youth at city schools in Roanoke, VA is now available to the general public. The organization Total Motion for Progress (TAP) first introduced the category, African American Culture and Contemporary Issues (AACCI), in 2008 to forestall young Black men from dropping out of highschool, based on The Roanoke Times. TAP’s youth services and education manager Lateefah Trent told the newspaper that students typically drop out of faculty because they aren't optimistic in regards to the future.  “They don’t feel like they’re going to essentially live past age of 21 or 25, or that they’re not going to amount anything, so ‘What’s the purpose?’” Trent said. But, Trent says AACCI class teaches...