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Black History: Are children learning enough about it? | 6 October 2020
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:31:22
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Synopsis
"You're a history teacher? You don't look like one."A Year 7 pupil's words to 25-year-old Otis Blaize, who works at a school in south London.He said the black boy smiled with excitement when he replied that he was indeed a history teacher.Why? Because Otis looked similar to him.This Black History Month on the Sky News Daily podcast, Otis shares his own experience of growing up, his aspiration to become a good role model for young people and the importance of the subject.Sky's Gamal Fahnbulleh is also joined by Kimberly McIntosh, columnist at gal-dem magazine and Calvin Robinson - a school governor and former assistant headteacher - as we look at teaching black history and how it is included in the curriculum.