The October 2024 interactive workshop series will take place on Sunday, October 20th at 8 PM, EST (and Follow-Up Workshop on October 27th at 8 PM, EST). NOTE: Registration for this workshop series may close 48 hours prior. We often avoid talking about…
Have you already participated in Raising Race Conscious Children’s workshop series? Are you supporting/leading racial justice work in your school or community? Join Raising Race Conscious Children on eight Sunday evenings from 7:30-9:30 PM beginning on November 5th to strengthen…
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…
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, “The Space Traders,”…
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)….
