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Author Archives: Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II

Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II, Esq. is the co-founder and managing partner of Ember Charter School for Mindful Education Brooklyn, New York, where he serves as a teacher and co-school leader. He is the founder of the #BlackLedSchoolsMatter initiative and a 2017 fellow of The OpEd Project’s Ford Public Voices Fellowship.

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New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum in New York City on February 23, 2017.
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OPINION: Black-led schools matter

by Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II February 5, 2018March 30, 2020

I am a black man and strong advocate of charter schools, as a founder and full-time teacher at one in New York. After the 2017 election, I listened to the many laments of a coming regression from apparent post-racial bliss under former President Barack Obama to the concrete racism of President Donald J. Trump. But […]

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