Decolonizing How Kids Learn with Akilah Richards

Black History Year

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Today's Story: Could This Be The Alternative Our Children Need For Education?

There hasn’t been a time when learning wasn’t important to Black people, whether for enrichment or survival. Unfortunately, white supremacy has corrupted information and spread it through an anti-Black school system. Solutions exist, though, and one solution on the rise is unschooling young black people. Today’s guest is a leading voice in the unschooling movement.

Akilah S. Richards is a mother, author, educator, and founder of Raising Free People, a network committed to community organizing at the intersection of privilege, parenting, and power. For more information on her consciousness-building work and on raising liberated people, visit RaisingFreePeople.com.

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0:00.0	The school system is working exactly how it was designed to.
0:16.8	In academic institutions, racism taints every hallway students walk and every class
0:24.1	they attend. It's toxic, lethal, even. And it makes you wonder what are Black
0:31.3	students eternalizing and what are they really learning in school. I'm Jay from
0:38.3	Push Black and you're listening to Black History Year. Black folks have fought
0:43.1	hard for an education. Our enslaved ancestors hid beneath the moon's light to
0:49.6	read and write under the threat of beatings, dismemberment, death. A brave
0:56.9	few endured by all emotional abuse to desegregate schools like the Little
1:02.0	Rock Nine. And today, Black students, our children, are still fighting and
1:07.7	enduring that emotional abuse to get an education. But what of the type of
1:12.2	education we're fighting for is all wrong. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the father of
1:18.5	Black History Month once said, for me, education means to inspire people to
1:24.6	live more abundantly. To learn is to begin with life as they find it and make it
1:30.1	better. One woman, our guest today, is expanding that vision and inspiring
1:36.5	folks nationwide to live more abundantly by unschooling. Akila S. Richards is a
1:44.0	mother author educator and founder of Raising Free People. A network committed to
1:50.5	community organizing at the intersection of privilege, parenting and power. Her
1:56.2	weekly podcast, Fair of the Free Child features Akila and her guests talking
2:01.3	about radical unschooling and what's at stake when raising free Black children.
2:07.3	Now, Akila doesn't play about decolonizing healing liberation and raising free
2:12.9	people. It's an interview you don't want to miss. But first up, a story about a
2:18.2	growing phenomenon that might be here to stay. Black home schooling.
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