No white students allowed. That’s the rule in two Minneapolis high schools that are offering black culture courses. The schools limited enrollment on the basis of gender and race, according to 2024-25 curriculum guides obtained by watchdog group Defending Education.
South High School, part of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), offered an elective course titled “Black Culture – Building Lives Acquiring Cultural Knowledge,” which was “open to: all Black male students.” The class describes “the complexity of the Black male experience” and “the lived reality of Black men in the United States.”
A similar “Queens” version of the course was “open to: all Black female students” for “developing cultural identity, sisterhood, and self-advocacy.”
Roosevelt High School under MPS offered “a group for Black girls (Queens)” course about Black culture.
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In an initial statement, MPS said, “All students are welcome to request any class that they are interested in provided they meet any applicable academic prerequisites.”
According to Fox 9, the school district “did not specify whether all students who requested a particular class ultimately enrolled in it.”
In a follow-up statement, MPS said it “does not restrict enrollment in courses or participation in activities on the basis of race, gender or any other protected class characteristic of students. If any student is being excluded from participation in a class or activity on the basis of race or gender, they can either speak with their school’s principal or our Office of Civil Rights.”
The district said it plans to update the curriculum language because it “is not reflective of our actual practices.”
As noted in the New York Post, it remains unclear whether classes with similar enrollment requirements were held again in the 2025-26 academic year, and whether non-Black students were actually prevented from enrolling.
If they were, the district “may have violated the US Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which barred segregation in public schools and began tearing down the ‘separate but equal’ doctrines American racism fed on after the Civil War,” The Post wrote.
Defending Education announced a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against MPS “because of their segregation of classes by race in clear violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
Newsmax host Todd Starnes blasted the school district and said it appears they’ve adopted tactics once prevalent during the segregated South.
“President Trump may need to send the National Guard to Minneapolis to force the school district to let white children into the schoolhouse,” Starnes said.
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