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If You Think Excellence Can’t Exist in All-Black Schools, You’re Tripping

January 18, 2019
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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As a child, youth, and adult, I have had the absolute pleasure of being surrounded by Mamas and Babas who upheld Black liberation in thought and action. Many of them made tremendous sacrifices to plant and defend this...

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Some Black Folks Don’t Want to End White Supremacy, They Just Want to Better Their Position in It

November 2, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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I was recently in Hartford, Connecticut, at the invitation of Mama Gwen Samuel, an activist who works on behalf and with the community.  I wasn’t prepared for what I was to encounter; callousness of Black bourgeois, disregard...

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My Anti-School Choice Friends Are Hypocrites When It Comes to Educating Black Children

June 14, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
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I have many friends who are staunchly “anti-choice” when it comes to educating  Black children. They are awesome people, folks you would trust with your children or money, but I find their hypocrisy alarming. They can be...

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The Second Great Migration for Black Families Is Embracing School Choice

March 31, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Like hundreds of thousands of Black families, my paternal grandmother and several of her relatives participated in the Great Migration, one of the most dramatic population shifts in American history. Although some Blacks left the...

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To Know Philadelphia’s Black Community Is to Know How Thirsty We Are for Better Schools

December 1, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
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I often wonder what it will take for Black children in our communities to attend high-performing schools. According to many anti-school choice opponents, the only choices that Black, Brown, and poor families should have a right...

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Striving for Excellence, Without the Excuses

October 23, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
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I’m concerned about the growing backlash against what are referred to as “no-excuses” schools. Too often, critics depict overly-rigid approaches to discipline that pave the road from school to prison. I agree that too much...

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