Malik Yusef
Parents & Staff Slam Sudden Closure (and Reopening) of Donda Academy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Kanye West, now known as Ye, is getting criticism from inside his own camp after the sudden closure of Donda Academylocated in Calabasas, California. The newly-formed charter school closed after West made recent anti-Black and anti-Semitic remarks sparking a backlash from his (now-former) business partners—including Adidas and Balenciaga. According to the New York Post, one of West’s closest friends and frequent collaborator Malik Yusef confirmed that several teachers and administrators left the school after the comments. “Staff members of the Jewish faith were lost,” Yusef said, adding, ““I know we had a couple people of the Jewish faith who worked there [who] basically recused or resigned in light ofpublic pressure from, I am...
