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Archive - October 2018

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Two Percent Is Not Enough: Two Takeaways From the Second Annual National Black Male Educators Convening

October 29, 2018
by Colin Seale
5 min read
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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” This is one of my favorite Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes, but it leaves out a crucial point: the arc will not bend by itself. Someone has got to be...

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Philly’s Activists Continue to Address and Have an Impact on Social Justice Issues

October 25, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
6 min read
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The #SchoolToActivismPipeline is real. When Nasiha Thompson-King was given a temporary reprieve and allowed to continue playing basketball for Mastery Charter last February, mere days after a referee would not allow her to enter...

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Black Organizations and Philanthropists Are Secretly Meeting to Create a Plan for Radically Changing Public Schools

October 21, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
6 min read
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Theodore Roosevelt famously said: “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” According to a message I just received, some of our most prominent black leaders are about to put that saying into action on behalf...

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From a Near Death Experience Outside of a School to Leading a Classroom Within One

October 15, 2018
by John Mitchell
7 min read
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Sharif El-Mekki doesn’t often roll up his pant leg to reveal the scars on his lower leg where the gangrene set in and almost forced doctors to amputate his lower leg. He doesn’t talk about the 12 excruciatingly painful...

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The Horrid Legacy of American Racism Captured In a Museum in Alabama

October 11, 2018
by Zachary Wright
4 min read
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The room is dimly lit when you enter, a short ramp leading you further into the darkness. Five prison cells await.  Old. Wooden with iron bars and solid padlocks. Within, ghostly apparitions come into focus.  Old women. Young...

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I Started This School Year Talking About My History So My Students Could Discover Their Own Identity

October 6, 2018
by Abigail Henry
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I started this year with only two things on my mind: 1) helping my students develop positive racial identities and 2) building a community within a community.   Last year, because of the events that happened in Charlottesville...

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Dear White People: We’ve Always Had Affirmative Action

October 1, 2018
by Brooke Haycock
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“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”—Gloria Steinem Dear White People, Days ago, I, like many of you, watched in horror the vile display of bigotry and hatred, violence and terror that unfolded in...

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