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Educators, If You Aren’t Consistently Asking ‘How Are The Children?’, You’re Asking The Wrong Questions.

December 21, 2020
by Dr. Robert Harvey
6 min read
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On the sun-glazed African continent, the most storied warrior people, incomparably formidable and sagacious in war, is the Maasai. It is perhaps unexpected, then, to learn the traditional greeting that passed between Maasai...

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Educators, There Isn’t A Flaw In The System, These Injustices Are The System. How Will You Respond?

June 9, 2020
by Kelisa Wing
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I am finding it difficult to get through most days without crying, without feeling like water is rising above my head, without feeling a great sense of despair. I feel a heaviness in my chest. Watching 400 years of abuse...

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I’m Not Black. I’m O.J.: How Understanding Privilege Can Help To Disrupt Inequity

July 2, 2018
by Kelli Seaton
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If you have ever done a privilege walk, you know it can be a very moving, and sometimes emotional, visual of how some of us have been given opportunities and head starts and others of us have not. In the video above, the...

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If You Are An Educator, What Is Your “Why”?

February 3, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Everyone has a “why.” It informs their motivations, their purpose, their drive and commitments. When you work on behalf of children and in service of communities, your “why” is crucial. As in why did you...

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In Its Second Year, Black Lives Matter Week of Action Goes National

January 7, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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My school community, The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice, and I are proud to partner with organizations across the city and country for the National Black Lives Matter Week of Action (2/5/18-2/10/18). Last...

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Conscious Educators Don’t Make Excuses, Run From Accountability, or Break Promises Made to Families

November 1, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
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In his meticulously researched book, “The Education of Blacks in the South 1860-1935,” James D. Anderson reminds us of a story that highlights a now famous quote. “Tell them we are rising.” When Richard Wright, one of the...

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Drawing on My Experience as an Expatriate to Support My Immigrant and Refugee Students

March 24, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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I grew up in the desert. And, not just any desert—I lived and attended school in Qom, Iran, for several years of my childhood. My parents had always had friends from all over the African diaspora and the Muslim world, and...

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Are Educators Liberators or Overseers?

July 8, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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More Black and Brown men have been lynched by the state. It is the American way. And, too many educators look away from and are silent about the carnage. Whether lynchings occur on the trees that led to “Strange Fruit” (sung...

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