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If You Believe Education Is For Liberation, Follow The Examples of Liberation Schools

December 9, 2020
by Rann Miller
6 min read
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When it comes to education, I have a well-rounded and unique perspective. I received a Catholic school education, I taught middle and high school history for two charter schools and I am currently a program director for a public...

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Do You Want to Know What Equitable Funding for Black and Brown Non-Profits Looks Like?

November 6, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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There has been an admittedly welcome rush to support Black and brown communities and causes in our national reckoning with systemic racism. Some $5 billion of philanthropic funding has flowed in support of racial equity work in...

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Hiring? Use an Anti-Racist Lens!

October 2, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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As a principal of three neighborhood schools serving majority Black students, I was always in talent acquisition mode. More on point, I was always in talent acquisition and cultivation mode, since the best recruitment strategy is...

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An Open Letter to Teachers Who Began Teaching During the American Spring

June 23, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Dear Freedom School Literacy Team 2020, Across the nation, we started the summer of 2020, lighting up the streets with rage. We rage for George Floyd’s senseless strangulation. We rage for Ahmaud Arbery, who was hunted...

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Independence Has Always Been a Day Late and a Dollar Short for Black People, But Schools Can Change That…If They Wanted To.

July 5, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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On June 19, 1865, two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing (only) some of the enslaved, Union Major General Gordon Granger, rode into Galveston, Texas and announced: The people of Texas are informed...

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We Don’t Need Any More Allies. We Need Accomplices in the Fight for Justice.

March 7, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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@MsPackyetti "Allies take up space; accomplices take up risk." #SummitX #UNDENIABLE — SFER (@SFERnational) March 5, 2017 Last week, I had the absolute pleasure to spend time with reformers and resisters at the...

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