Parenting Decolonized is announcing the first-ever Parenting Decolonized Conference: Rona, Racism, and Radical Parenting from January 15-17. The free virtual event aims to teach parents how to be more intentional and conscious amidst the chaos of current-day societal realities – as well as everyday life – in order to raise liberated children. Registration is open now at https://www.parentingdecolonized.com/parentingconference.
Yolanda Williams, Founder of Parenting Decolonized, says this first-of-its-kind conference features more than 20 professional speakers on subjects including conscious parenting, child development, and mental health. She says this will provide participants with the right tools, a road map, and a safe gathering space for parents to recalibrate. “Parenting is hard,” she says, “Parenting while Black is even harder. Black parents right now are on the struggle bus, out of gas, running on fumes, tires balding, with the check engine light on.”
December 8, 2020
COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has disproportionately struck Black and Brown communities. We are centuries into the equally pernicious plague of police violence toward unarmed Black Americans. Both realities are grounded in structural white supremacy. Both have made plain the pervasive inequity baked into the American Experiment. As our moderator, Andre Perry, says in his book, “Know Your Price,” “The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. … But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can’t solve.” The 2020 murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and numerous others have forced a confrontation with racial injustice. The conversations, the anger, the protests aren’t new; but these events lend them renewed urgency. How must we meet this moment, and move forward as one? Join Next City as we explore three specific responses to