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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
6 min read
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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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Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Fight for Educational Equity

June 5, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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At Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus, I’m not just a teacher; I am a warrior for social justice. Education in America, wherein we have legislated who can learn and with whom one can learn, is inseparable from...

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Pennsylvania’s Stubborn and “Savage Inequalities”

June 17, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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“Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school in our district. Thus the state, by requiring attendance but refusing to require equity...

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I’m All for Equity (Unless it Means I Have to Be Fair)

June 3, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
9 min read
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Everyone wants equity. It sounds great. It rolls off the tongue and it goes well in speeches and pontifications. Everyone wants equity until you explain that they would need to decrease their privileges, share their accumulated...

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The Abolitionists We Need

May 27, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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Saying the enslaved were happy is akin to saying Black communities are happy sending their children to persistently failing schools. Just as we needed an abolitionist movement then, we need one now-with the right mindset. I...

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