Tag: children

Fare of the Free Child Podcast

Via Raising Free People.  Fare of the Free Child Podcast fare of the FREE CHILD podcast Fare of the Free Child is a weekly-published podcast community centering Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color in liberatory living and learning practices. With a particular interest in unschooling and the Self-Directed Education movement, Akilah S. Richards … Read More

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Check out These Books for Children and Young Adults from the List of Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

Via Common Sense Media.  Check out These Books for Children and Young Adults from the List of Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners Each winter (either January or February), the Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and … Read More

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Because Several Folks Keep Asking for a Reading List for Children (0-12)

Via Sujei Lugo Vázquez (@sujeilugo)  + Alia Jones (@readitrealgood). Because Several Folks Keep Asking for a Reading List for Children (0-12) #BlackLivesMatter 😉 ✊????✊???? Compiled by Sujei Lugo Vázquez (@sujeilugo)  + Alia Jones (@readitrealgood) [Last updated: June 5, 2020] Blackness/Ancestors/Elders The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; illustrated by Kadir Nelson Black Women Who Dared by Naomi M. Moyer … Read More

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How to Teach Kids About What’s Happening in Ferguson

Via The Atlantic.  How to Teach Kids About What’s Happening in Ferguson  A crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing by MARCIA CHATELAIN AUGUST 25, 2014 When the unrest in Ferguson erupted, my husband made an observation that broke my heart: “The kids were supposed to start school today.” For me, … Read More

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Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness

Via Goodreads. Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) by Anastasia Higginbotham  4.28  ·   Rating details ·  833 ratings  ·  235 reviews Not My Idea, the latest in the critically-acclaimed Ordinary Terrible Things series, is a book about whiteness. A white child sees TV news coverage of a white police officer shooting a brown person whose hands were up. Upset, … Read More

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Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano

Via Goodreads.  Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by  Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, Jennifer Zivoin (Illustrator)  4.13  ·   Rating details ·  532 ratings  ·  136 reviews Something Happened in Our Town follows two families — one White, one Black — as they … Read More

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