Parenting While Black: History, Healing and Practical Tools

Parenting While Black is an interactive and reflective webinar that centers the lived experiences of Black parents, caregivers, and families. Together, we will walk through the legal history that has shaped Black family life (how laws disrupted kinship, regulated care, and enforced racism) while also naming the resilience, love, and community-building practices that Black caregivers have sustained across generations.

You will be encouraged to reflect, share, and connect; linking history to present-day parenting realities and caregiving practices. Through guided discussion and collective learning, we will explore how the law has entered Black homes in both visible and invisible ways, and how Black families have continually resisted, adapted, and nurtured one another in response.

Our time together is designed to be healing and empowering, creating room to process difficult histories while affirming the strength, creativity, and wisdom within Black caregiving traditions. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, kinship caregiver, auntie, uncle,…