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At nearly all-black Strawberry Mansion High School, a top student in the African-American studies class was chosen as the subject of a $360 genetic test designed to help blacks trace their roots back to Africa. James Sullivan, a senior, learned the bittersweet news that his maternal family descends from the Ibo tribe in Nigeria, and that they came to the U.S. as slaves.

It's absolutely fascinating that they can do this. Amazing!

"I think if we have to take African-American history as a mandatory class, that we should have it open to other cultures: Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans," said Briggitte Rodriguez, 14, a freshman at Philadelphia High School for Girls, which is 62 percent black. "It's a big world. You have to think about everyone else, too."

Just wait, Briggitte. I'm sure those courses are on the way as well.

At nearly all-black Strawberry Mansion High School

In Philly, it's probably really ALL-black, but they SAY it's "nearly" all black, because there's one brother that looks like Michael Jackson.

Also, I bet this school USED to be something like, "George Washington High School".

What about English-Scottish-Swedish-Americans like me? Would I get my own special 1-year course on Northern European history, even though I don't feel bittersweet that I'm not living in England, Scotland, or Sweden?