“I felt like I was needed in that space,” says Grant, now an 8th-grade science ... teachers were Black men in the 2020-21 school year, according to the National Teacher and Principal Survey.

Often, particularly in urban schools and districts, someone asks: “Where are the black male teachers ... to a lack of them in school leadership roles, such as principal and assistant principal.

When John Wesley Manning came to Knoxville to be principal of Austin High School on South Central Street in 1881 at the age of 24, he was one of the best educated Black men in the United States.

"Although he was my teacher in seventh grade ... % of public school teachers identified as Black men in the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) National Teacher and Principal Survey ...

A little over 1% of educators in the nation are Black men ... Seventh and eighth-grade science teacher William Childers is the only Black man teaching at Riverside Middle School in Grand Rapids ...

In America’s most extensive public school ... Black male teachers––and teachers in general––are often tasked with challenges outside of their job description and above their pay grade.