Interactive Workshop/Webinar on Sunday, January 8th at 8 PM, EST (and Follow-Up Webinar on January 22nd). NOTE: Registration for this workshop may close 48 hours prior. We often avoid talking about race with our young children but, whether we like it…
by guest blogger Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft Along with 101 million others, we had the Super Bowl on our television last Sunday. During the pre-game, I was startled to see the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” performed. As…
by Sachi Feris When I was little, we almost never talked about race. But there is one story my mom told more than once about her mother, Rose. Though I never met my grandmother Rose, I “remember” her through stories….
by Sachi Feris I must have been around sixteen because my grandmother, Mary, died a few months after my seventeenth birthday. She was sitting at the far, right corner of the dining table, where my mom usually sat. More often,…
by Sachi Feris I hung on to my high school copy of “We Are the Stories We Tell” for years. From my earliest memories, the question, “Who Am I?” called to me, beginning a life-long process of considering my identity…
by Grace Aldrich and Emma Redden The dialogue below is a rough transcription of an episode from the podcast Freedom Means by Grace Aldrich and Emma Redden, creators of The Full Story School, a community education project focused on collaborating…
Professor Derrick Bell The willful misunderstanding and skewing of Critical Race Theory in recent news has saddened and angered me. Without Critical Race Theory, there would be no Raising Race Conscious Children. I was in college when a short story,…
by Sachi Feris As I often share in Raising Race Conscious Children’s workshops, when my son was in preschool, he often came home playing ‘jail’ and building jails out of manipulatives (blocks, magnatiles, etc). I was not a fan of…
Have you participated in the introductory Raising Race Conscious Children webinar and would like to take a deeper dive into scenarios around race and children? This 1.5 hour follow-up webinar will focus on specific scenarios (to be submitted by participants)….
by Sachi Feris The Covid Spring felt liberating as a parent compared to this Fall. Covid Spring, while hard, even under the best of possible conditions, felt temporary. Covid Fall feels permanent and indefinite. And anything but liberating. Instead, it…
