Sharif El-Mekki

BPP Cub. Activist. Educator. Student of #NidhamuSasa, Overbrook HS & Qom, Iran. 1/3 of #FreedomFriday Founded: @fellowshipbmec @CenterBlackEd @Phillys7thWard

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Angela Rye has launched "Cite Your Source," a new YouTube series aimed at tackling misinformation ahead of the midterms https://t.co/7oT0cmFzbs

[Phillys7thward @Phillys7thWard]

A viral article by Nikole Hannah-Jones has social media piling on, looking for someone to blame. @selmekki makes it clear that the system is what needs to be addressed.

[Phillys7thward @Phillys7thWard]

ICYMI: Our founder @selmekki and the #FreedomFriday crew talked about the state of Black education with @RepBowman.

https://t.co/DZ4YlfKjz1

[Ed Post 🎓 @edu_post]

Republicans in Congress get government paid healthcare, sick leave, and other benefits that they vote against for others.

[Ed Post 🎓 @edu_post]

The first honest audit of Najya Hannah-Jones's schooling was done by a seventh grader with a phone. My response to Nikole's brave new essay, and why we've been measuring the wrong thing in Black.

https://t.co/NGyEdpzVN9

[Ed Post 🎓 @edu_post]

Want a no bs reality check about the whole @nhannahjones dust up?

Check out @ccoleiii's #ColorCommentary on the @edu_post YouTube channel!

https://t.co/KbWgWbUTxN

[Ed Post 🎓 @edu_post]

This is their heritage. Racism is their foundation.

[Ed Post 🎓 @edu_post]

CITIZEN STEWART: "Why I��m boycotting Teach For America’s 35th Anniversary Summit."

https://t.co/24ApYytDBa

[Ed Post 🎓 @edu_post]

An "unpolished" conversation with @RepBowman on fighting for America's 8 million Black students. @selmekki @Teacherishx @citizenstewart #FreedomFriday https://t.co/skhESfuMpz

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones faced backlash for her now-viral essay about how she views her choice a decade ago to send her daughter to a high-poverty, predominantly Black public school in New York City.

Her advice to Black parents facing similar choices with their children today: "Go in with clear eyes."

"I'm certainly not sending the message to other folks, don't do it," she told Geoff Bennett on the PBS News podcast, Settle In. Instead, she said, "understand what it is that you're going to face, understand what it is that your children are going to face, and if there's a way to organize other parents with you, try to do that."

"But I also understand most of us are working full-time jobs," she added. "You know, I can't ask every parent to make the choice to also become a parent organizer. It's a lot."

Hannah-Jones talked with Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) about her experience, public school systems and where she sees hope for change.

[Sharif El-Mekki @selmekki]

@dperkinsed @PhillyInquirer Sadly too many systems are a detriment to too many daughters 😞 😡

[Sharif El-Mekki @selmekki]

NYT writer practiced her principles with her daughter’s schooling | Jenice Armstrong https://t.co/kptZ9JS3GN via @phillyinquirer

[Sharif El-Mekki @selmekki]

Discipline disparities are real. New federal guidance makes them harder to examine. https://t.co/SOMTnUwvAT via @District Administration

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“There’s no benefit that came out of you putting me in those schools. No benefit at all.”

Brutal 2 minutes of NHJ’s daughter dismantling her mother’s school integration experiment on @ThisAmerLife.

[Thomas R. Petersen @thomasrp93]

Marshawn Lynch on Jalen Hurts:

"They talking about this the year he gotta go do this or gotta do that, or he's gone. I aint hear you say that about Justin Herbert. I aint hear them say none of that shit about any of the snowbunny quarterbacks"

#Eagles via @GetGotPod

[Sharif El-Mekki @selmekki]

Hannah Gann’s deceit makes the work of Black and brown justice activists harder | Opinion https://t.co/tEOhhlJkQr via @phillyinquirer

[Ed Post 🎓 @edu_post]

An important conversation on integration, privilege, school choice, and the struggles Black families face within our education system. @citizenstewart @selmekki @Teacherishx @ccoleiii @Mr_Ankrum #FreedomFriday https://t.co/6MvjqI1jUX

[This American Life @ThisAmerLife]

Nikole Hannah-Jones famously argued for sending her daughter to a regular public school in NYC. Ten years later, she revisits that choice with Chana Joffe-Walt and her daughter, Najya, who has her own views. https://t.co/RY7gBKefg3

[Sharif El-Mekki @selmekki]

The real scandal's not a mom’s regret (her choice of her kid's school or critique of other families' choices). It's a system that makes solidarity feel like sacrifice—and makes a first-rate education feel like something families have to escape their neighborhood to obtain

[Alexander Russo @alexanderrusso]

“I was judgmental about the choices other Black folks made that I didn't think were communal enough. I have to own that, now, I'm getting what I gave to a degree… The most disheartening thing to me has been the number of people who have not critiqued the system.”

[Alexander Russo @alexanderrusso]

Hard to believe it, but this is the only interview I've seen so far: