Digital Smarts - Social Media Fuels Change in History Lessons

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High-school students across the country are signing petitions and addressing school boards and leaders to demand changes to how Black history is taught, and increase diversity in reading lists with more books written by people of color. Social media has helped fuel the student activism, with protests spread across the US. Schools are expecting social media is going to continue to be a conduit of students protest and activism as the elections approach.