CBS 42: “Over 200 students at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa County participated in a walkout protest Wednesday following controversy involving a Black History Month program.
Students claim that school administration told them their student-run Black History Month program could not reference anything that happened before the 1970s, including slavery, the Black Panthers or the civil rights movement.
Students say they decided to have the walk out in order to have their voices heard.
“I feel like it’s important to talk about that because I feel like in 2023, a lot of our youth don’t know their culture,” student Jamiyah Brown said. “A lot of our youth don’t know how empowerment has brought us this far. This is important to educate our youth on how we came from somewhere to now.””