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Start the school year with this powerful Anti-Blackness/Anti-Racism professional development training opportunity!

Workshop Presenter:

Dr. Brian L. Wright, Award-winning Author and Associate Professor & Program Coordinator of Early Childhood Education, Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, College of Education and Coordinator of the Middle School Cohort of the African American Male Academy at the University of Memphis

Entitled after the award-winning book, “The Brilliance of Black Boys” workshop will help educators, administrators, social workers/counselors, government officials, funders, and other educational equity stakeholders better understand and identify the promise, potential and possibilities of Black boys. For Black parents, families, and community members, it will be a refreshing reminder of the beauty and brilliance of our children and affirmation in the face of negative narratives and experiences with schools and other systems.

Drawing from a wealth of experience in early childhood education, Dr. Wright will present an asset- and strengths-based view of educating Black boys. This positive approach enables practitioners and school leaders to recognize, understand, and cultivate the diversity of social skills of Black boys in the early grades (Pre-K-3rd grade).

Two unique benefits are available to registrants only:

o Free electronic copies of select articles by Dr. Wright published in NAEYC’s Teaching Young Children Journal (usually only available to NAEYC members)

o Limited quantities of autographed copies of “The Brilliance of Black Boys”

This special workshop will provide practical skills and tools that can be put into practice right away including:

o Tangible illustrations of what is lost when Black boys are prevented from participating freely in boyhood, having to instead attend to adult and peer interactions and attitudes that view them as “bad boys” and “troublemakers”

o Classroom strategies to help young Black boys achieve their highest potential

o Other resources for supporting Black boys’ social-emotional development including a preview of “Black Boys are Lit” – an upcoming publication with a reading list of 300 authentic multicultural children’s books with Black boys as protagonist

“The Brilliance of Black Boys” is the fourth in a series of workshops as part of “Blacks, Believers & the Montessori Way” (BBMW) community awareness and empowerment campaign.

BBMW is sponsored by IMPACT LIVING Christian Center, a non-denominational faith community led by Black leaders, as a part of its planning process for opening Morning Glory Montessori, an all-boys, Afrocentric, Christian Montessori school in fall 2021. (www.impactlivingcc.org)

For more information about Morning Glory Montessori, click here.

This workshop is made possible by a grant from the Sheltering Arms Foundation.

The ACTIONS program at UCSF School of Nursing is proud to present Reimagining Black Motherhood: A conversation about the future of Black maternal health in the United States . This panel discussion will explore structural racism within maternal health care and its impact on Black mothers. This conversation is also an opportunity to envision ways to repair the harms done to Black women and find new ways to create new standards of maternal health care.

Zoom info will be emailed to attendees prior to the event.

Speakers

Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy & Management

University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Dani McClain

Author, ”We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood”

Contributing Writer at The Nation

Stephanie McLemore Bray (Moderator)

Nonprofit Executive

Creative Writer, Essayist

Learn more about our program at actions.ucsf.edu

Through the use of interactive conversation “No Fats, No Femmes, No Blacks: How Your Preferences May Actually Be Prejudice” will explore the magnitude in which the use of microaggressions, ideas about race, gender, sexuality and body politics impacts our behaviors and attitudes when creating dating and sexual “preferences”. It will also explore how these dynamics impede on our ability to view individuals holistically by exploring how these attitudes impact who we deem as desirable and the types of interpersonal behaviors we deem “appropriate” when building platonic, romantic and sexual relationships. Lastly we will also explore ways we can acknowledge and combat microaggressions and build stronger coalitions across communities.

Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZAtcOCqqDwuGtwapMEYFUScjQMFn…

Discussion Facilitator: Karlyn Bradley is a Black, Fat, Queer Femme, Senior Double Majoring in Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies At the University of Arizona and uses He/Him They/Them pronouns. Karlyn is scholar, theorist, community organizer, artist and educator. They have been able to use and expand their knowledge of Interesctional Feminist Theory to create programming that educates and empowers folks around topics of Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and Power Dynamics. After graduating from UArizona Karlyn hopes to obtain a Graduate Level Degree in Gender and Women’s Studies and Law and continue doing community organizing work to create a just a libratory world for Black Folks.

Venmo: @dawntray1224

Cash App: $kbradley12

Instagram: @k.d.bradley

“Black Poets Then and Now” presented by Dr. Janice K. Neal-Vincent, Virtual Book Toasters Speaking Series, Community Library Mississippi. A look at black poets and their impact on social justice and society Community Library MS Zoom link then and now.