48. How Liberation Work is Rooted in Our Ancestry & The EmancipatED Experience with Dr. Crystal Menzies

What can our ancestral history teach us about parenting, liberation, and revolution? A lot. Let’s get into it. In this episode of Parenting Decolonized, I welcome Dr. Crystal Menzies, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of EmancipatED, an organization that centers stories of joy and resistance within the African Diaspora through the creation of educational resources and curricula. Listen in to learn about how liberation work and conscious parenting are rooted in our ancestral practices and how we can reclaim these colonized practices to revolutionize our future.In this episode, we talk about…The history of Maroon communities and why they’re significant to us today.How white people have colonized and rebranded tribal parenting methods.How to intentionally build a supportive community to help nurture your conscious parenting and liberation work.The EmancipatED Experience: A brand new community education resource that supports the enrichment of Black families and our larger kinship communities.….and more!Looking for a community that will support you on your parenting decolonization journey?Listen in to this discussion to learn more and consider joining the Conscious Parenting for Social Justice Collective, our Black-led, multiracial collective of parents, working together to simultaneously transform ourselves, our families, and our communities by decolonizing our minds and healing racial traumas! Hope to see you there!Don't forget to share, rate, and let me know what you think of this week's episode on Facebook and Instagram!To connect further with Dr. Crystal & EmancipatED:Visit EmancipatED’s website: www.emancipatededucation.comFollow them on Instagram: www.instagram.com/emancipate_ed

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Raising children is hard. Raising children while black is even harder. The Parenting Decolonized podcast shines the light on how colonization has impacted the black family structure and what to do about it. Host Yolanda Williams takes you on the journey as she learns how to raise liberated black children without breaking their spirits. Yolanda and her guests discuss how to decolonize your parenting by resisting old narratives, how to use conscious parenting as activism against white supremacy, reclaiming ancestral ways of parenting, and how to become a more mindful, conscious parent.