"I [envision] a K-12 where my baby brother is able to pick up a history book and see more than slavery in those textbooks," Rex Putnam High School sophomore Raishel Convington testified before the JOINT Ways & Means Committee on Education in support of the bill. "To learn who their ancestors were and that they weren't just slaves, but the culture and communities they were taken from and the culture and communities they created to survive beyond slavery."