QUINCY (WGEM) – Students at the Freedom School at Bella Ease in Quincy, have been learning about black history in America all this month.
This is where middle and high school students learn about four components; Cultural history, identity, literature and social change.
Thrower said on Mondays throughout February, they met with community members who hold roles in the legal system. Like law enforcement, the state’s attorney’s office, public defender’s office, juvenile detention, probation and judges.
She said representatives came to have a discussion with students about what they do and what they can do to advocate for themselves and others in times of high tension, crisis or trauma.