The key to all of our futures is an Education system that meets the needs of the African community!

The APEDF believes that education is a basic human right. It was the African community in the Reconstruction period in the South that first brought a free public education to the U.S. Yet today, over 50 years after the Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, the reality is there are two separate and unequal school systems in this country. The schools attended by mostly white students look like mini-college campuses, where students engage in challenging assignments designed to develop creativity and critical thinking with state-of-the-art technology at their fingertips. Compare this to the repressive atmosphere, lack of books and bleak and dilapidated classrooms that characterize the under funded schools in black communities. read more >