Few Black male teachers are in US classrooms. These programs are changing that.
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 9, 2023
When Melvin Middleton Jr. started his first year teaching in the late 1990s, he discovered he was the only classroom teacher who was a man of color at his elementary school.
Middleton said he also faced stereotypes in the Florida school where he taught second and third graders, including that, as a Black man . . .