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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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Which Side Are you on, yaw? Which side are you on? I’m on the freedom side!

November 9, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It’s hard to disagree when you consider the totality of the Black radical tradition—our struggle today, and the struggles of those who came before...

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

June 23, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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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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Do You Know This Hidden Figure? Meet Legendary Resister, Dr. Anna Julia Cooper – A Black Educator Hall of Famer

March 3, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”  A multitude of hidden figures silently loom in our shadows, yet those...

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