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In the 1960s United States, Black activists and educators founded Afrocentric schools as a response to their traumatic experiences in Eurocentric American public schools. Driven by a strong rise of Black Power and Black Nationalism, these schools sought to teach Black students the values of the African diaspora. Some of these include self-determination (kujichagulia), unity (umoja), and collective work and responsibility (ujima). In the US today, many more Afrocentric schools have cropped up, though they’re still uncommon. They’re taught primarily by Black educators and primarily enroll Black students. Afrocentric schools can be private or charter schools.