4 ways to have healthy conversations about race | Afrika Afeni Mills

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Learning how to have productive conversations about race is a necessary part of the human experience. Educator Afrika Afeni Mills says the best place to start is in the classroom -- because the earlier these skills are taught, the fewer biases there are to unlearn. She shares four actionable lessons to help people overcome their fear and take on these conversations at any age.

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0:13.8	Talking about race can feel fraught, no matter what the age, but educator Africa
0:18.7	of Fanny Mills says it can be more comfortable and constructive if students are learning
0:23.8	to have racial dialogues much earlier in their lives.
0:27.6	In her 2023 talk from Ted Ed Salon, she teaches us actionable ways to tackle these conversations.
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