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El-Mekki: Just 2% of U.S. Teachers Are Black Males, but at National Convening We Come Together as a Powerful Force for Change

Founding members of The Fellowship — Black Male Educators for Social Justice, from left, Raymond Roy-Pace, Dr. William Hayes, Christopher McFadden, and Sterling Grimes, at the group’s national convening in October. (Nicole Pender-McFadden)
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Sharif El-Mekki is the former principal of Mastery Charter School–Shoemaker Campus, a neighborhood turnaround charter school in West Philadelphia that serves almost 800 students in grades 7-12. El-Mekki founded the Fellowship – Black Male Educators for Social Justice and currently leads the Center for Black Educator Development. He is one of the members of the 8 Black Hands podcast, blogs at Philly's 7th Ward, and is a featured voice at Education Post.

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