Starting the Blog (Chapters 1&2)

Reading chapters 1 and 2 in our African American Studies book introduced me to a lot of important historical figures that I had not heard of before or had heard of their name but not their significance in history. I would like to learn more about historical Black figures in American history. Three things that surprised me when I was reading were that Black was a major term of pride in the 60s (pg 3) that there were so very many historical figures who did such great things that I had never even heard of (pg 11-21) and that my education has in fact been skewed toward a Eurocentric view.... These were all very surprising to me that I had been led to think that basically the opposite was true... Three questions I had from these chapters are If Black is still preffered or if African American is more commonly used now I was wondering also why since we are aware that education is presented in a Eurocentric view why it isn't changed.... If we know there is a problem then why aren't we changing it?