Webinars about Race: What’s Coming Up
I love the free webinars about race that are put on by the non-profit organization, EmbraceRace. It is so clear from the election that we have a long road ahead of us in the United States when it comes to dismantling racism and paving a path where all people belong. Our country is even more divided than we were four years ago. Let’s keep doing the work! These webinars about race issues are a place to start.
Nurturing Resilience & Joy in/among Young BIPOC Children
Part 1, Focus on Parents & Caregivers
Monday, November 16, 8:30-9:30 pm ET
Part 2, Focus on Educators
Thursday, November 19, 8:30-9:30 pm ET.
US society is too often unkind to Black and Indigenous children and children of color (BIPOC children), raising the risk that these children learn to be unkind to themselves and each other. If we are to raise a generation of BIPOC children who fully recognize their own humanity, and that of their peers within and across lines of race and ethnicity, we need the entire village involved: aunts, uncles, and grandparents; mentors and coaches; children’s book authors and publishers; toy manufacturers; television and film, and video producers. And more.
The roles and responsibilities of parents, caregivers and educators are especially crucial for our youngest children. Join us for a two-part conversation organized around two questions:
- What are the big challenges parents, caregivers, and educators must meet if we are to nurture young children who are resilient, joyful and recognize each other’s full humanity?
- What tools, resources, and community do we need to help meet those challenges?
Whatever your own roles and responsibilities in the lives of children, please join us for one or both conversations!
Lights, cameras, representation! Raising racially just kids in today’s media environment.
Wednesday, November 11th, 8:30-9:30 pm ET
From the moment they are born, our children are participants in a hugely consequential, ongoing conversation about race and ethnicity of which we, and they, may be only dimly aware. Our news and entertainment media play lead roles in that conversation. According to Common Sense Media, 2-8-year-old children in the US spent an average of nearly three hours every day on screen media alone in 2017.
Join us for a conversation about how movies and television shape children’s ideas about race and ethnicity, what we can do to encourage the development of more high-quality racial representations in TV and movies, and how we can help the children we love critically engage critically with media. As always, we will welcome your insights and questions. Read more about our special guests below.