The Wilkersons, through the Network of Black Homeschoolers, and the Burgeses, through the National Black Home Educators Resource Association (NBHERA), are connecting African-American home schoolers.

Both groups are actively working to make access to African-American history and cultural resources easier for home schooling families.

For example, in a recent NBH newsletter, the Wilkersons published a list of Black inventors, Gilbert said. "A Black inventor invented the typewriter, the horseshoe, the helicopter, the machine for cleaning seed cotton, the food press, the hairbrush, the dust pan, the rail trace, and the letter drop mailbox—all those were invented by Black inventors, which our readers don't know anything about. We try to educate them, and help them feel proud of the history of Black America."

Upcoming NBHERA newsletters, Joyce says, "will feature topics such as 'How to Get on Mailing Lists.' I don't live in Washington, DC, but I get information from just about every museum in DC. I know that I will probably not visit all of them. But, just knowing what's going on, especially with the African-American Museum—how they update certain sculptures and pictures and why they do it—that's very informative for me. Then when we do have an opportunity to be there, we're already familiar with the museum and what's going on there.

"NBHERA also seeks to encourage Black American writers: I have written A Gentle Woman's Guide to Greatness and we are looking for other positive, family—oriented African-American authors. We will have a list of recommended Black speakers for convention workshops and will profile Black speakers in our newsletter."