Malcolm and Martin, a dual credit course for high school students
In this video from April 2023, Marina Limon, then a sophomore at Stanford, shares her work as a section leader coordinator for a new Stanford course offered to high school students: Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom. Marina talks about what she wants students to take away from the course, and how these goals connect with her personal values.
Learn more about Stanford courses for under-resourced high schools.
Transcript
NARRATOR: January 2023: Stanford is offering a course on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. for the first time to a high school class across the country.
MARINA LIMON: Hi everyone. My name is Marina Limon, and I am the section leader coordinator for Stanford Digital Education.
NARRATOR: Marina, a sophomore at Stanford, worked with Stanford professor Lerone A. Martin to design this new class.
MARINA LIMON: The title of this course is Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom. It will be offered to students from Title I high schools as an opportunity for them to earn dual credit or high school and college as well as become official Stanford students for an entire quarter.
NARRATOR: The course is being offered through the nonprofit National Education Equity Lab to 21 students at Camden Prep High School in New Jersey.
MARINA LIMON: My goal is for students to learn about Malcolm and Martin not just in the context of their activism, but as people who weren't always perfect and who didn't always have a straight path to success. I think at times history classes tend to gloss over the issues in our society and tend to accentuate the progress that has been made in the U.S without really taking the time to see the obstacles or setbacks that it took to get there.
NARRATOR: Stanford Digital Education is committed to welcoming the students in this class into our community.
MARINA LIMON: A core value of mine is definitely community and being able to think critically about issues affecting different communities, and I think the course content really accentuates this aspect of Malcolm and Martin's lives as well, as people who decided to dedicate their entire lives to advancing the rights of their people. It's something I admire, and looking at issues facing historically underrepresented communities today, we can learn from the activism of Malcolm and Martin by kind of seeing where they left off and using that to improve social movements today.
More about the “Malcolm and Martin” course
- ‘Do I know my history?’ Los Angeles teens study Malcolm X and MLK with Stanford professor
- ‘This is what my school was missing’: A dual enrollment course brings Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to under-resourced high schools
- On the journey to college, more low-income high schoolers are taking the digital path through Stanford
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