Former LRSD principal Robert Brown’s Afrocentric curriculum still reverberates for students decades later

“I think that derives from Mr. Brown being our principal,” Denaro Cook says, “because when he came to Garland, he taught us principles that we would have never obtained in life. Taught us how to celebrate Kwanzaa. Speak Swahili … Learning was fun. We learned about different cultures and things like that. What we would never have learned in an elementary setting. When we graduated, we were given a kente cloth.”