Success for Black Boys

Dr. Asa Hilliard, renown educator and scholar, speaks to the African American presence in the school curriculum and its impact on student achievement.

Since the election of President Barack Obama, much of the public's discourse around race speaks of a post-racial America.  It is not uncommon for news headlines to ask us if these times represent The End of White America? or Does Race Matter?  Newsweek's Allison Samuels extends this conversation by asking if Black History Month and classic novels such as Huck Finn and To Kill a Mocking Bird should be abolished in America's classrooms. 

Given the racial context of classic novels like Huck Finn and To Kill a Mocking Bird, In the age of Obama do these books still have a place in America's classrooms?