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 […]
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.