Howard County Center of African American Culture highlights Black History 365 for Juneteenth

 
As a fourth grader, Walter Milton Jr. was so excited to learn about Black history that he donned his only suit and sat at the front of the classroom for the start of the unit.
“My mother and father would remind me and my siblings that we were descendants of kings and queens,” he said. “That the shoulders that we stand on are the shoulders of those people who were the original people of the earth.”
But the first thing his teacher did was play a video showing an enslaved person being beaten.
“Th...