A local school district works to make sure students know that advanced placement classes are for everyone.
The School District of Beloit is the only district in Rock County and one of only a couple hundred in the United States to offer an Advance Placement African American Studies course.
Beloit Memorial High School Social Studies Department Co-Chair Nicole Powers says the class will start up in the fall.
Powers says almost 50 percent of her students are students of color.
Topics include origins of the African Diaspora; Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance; The Practice of Freedom; and Movements and Debates.
