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Rejected petition We would want you to include Black History within the British Curriculum.

We would want you the government to include black history within the curriculums in schools. This should be mandatory and should include the history of Britain's Black Heroes and the history of oppression against black people. This would help create awareness of Britian’s history of Black People.

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We would also want you to reach out to charities such as The Black Curriculum, that help teach young people about Black History.

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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808

Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961

Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092

Introduce Gender and Race equity for GCSE English Literature set texts:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324934

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