A Minnesota public high school appears to have held classes open to black students only — a possible violation of the US Constitution’s most fundamental anti-segregation laws.

South High School, a part of the Minneapolis public school system, held two elective courses titled “HS BLACK Culture – Building Lives and Acquiring Knowledge” during the 2024-25 school year.

The classes focused on the “lived reality” of black men and women in the US — and appeared to be open only to black students, a syllabus obtained by the education watchdog group Defending Education and first reported by the Daily Mail showed. 3

“Open to: All black male students,” the listing of one class read, while the other read, “Open to: All black female students.”

It remains unclear whether the classes were h

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